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Historians say
Begun as SARASWATI BHANDAR under Raghunatha Nayak, developed by the Marathas from 1675 to 1855, and transformed by SERFOJI II (1798-1832), who employed pandits to collect and copy works from across northern India. ONE OF THE OLDEST LIBRARIES IN ASIA. Holdings variously given as over 30,000 manuscripts or well over 60,000 volumes, 39,300 of them Sanskrit.