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of ancient literature as he was, that the value able collections of Sanskrit and Gujarati MSS. that were lying neglected in the famous Jain Bhandars at Pattan and other places required to be very thoroughly inspected and the most valuable contents thereof brought to tb notice of the public. On his submitting a report to this effect to the Govt. he was deputed for doing this work for three months to Pattan. By this time owing to his long acquaintance with Jain Sadhus and his Scholarly work among them he had gained their full trust, and keing a devout Jain bimself had removed all difficulties in the way of his gaining free access to these Jain Bhandars. There by working 14 hours a day in the dark dingy cellars sitting continuously in a painful bending position of the body he inspected very carefully the heaps of Mss. in all the eleven Bhanc'ars consisting of nearly 13,000 Mss. and finished his work in the appointed period. This work of Mr. Dalal at Pattan was quite unique in asmuch as not only much more than one full year's work was finished in three moths but a most thorough inspection was made of all the Mss. in all the Bhandars, a work which even scholars like Dr. Bublar Bhandarker, Peterson and Mr. M. N. Dvivedi of this State-Mr. Dalal's predecessors in this work
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