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14 works and wrote Introductions of two more works in the series. At the time of his death 7 works were out of the press, two had their texts printed but were waiting for introductions and notes, three had only a few forms printed and two catalogues of Mss. at Pattau and Jesalmere were ready for the press.
This was indeed an unusually brilliant feat of achievement but unfortunately the heavy work it involved told excessively upon his already frail body and probably hastened death.
Besides the tour to Pattan for Mss. search Mr. Dalal made several other search-trials in parts of Gujarat, Kathiawad and Rajputana, He visited Amod, Tarapur, Cambay, Kaira, Ahmedadad, Matar, Vala, Junagad in Gujarat and Kathiawad, so also Sirohi, Jodhpur, Bikaner and Jesalmere in Rajputana. But uone of these tours was so fruitful of results as his trip to Jesalmere. The famous Jain Bhandar at Jesalmere is well-known among oriental scholars as the repository of some of the oldest and rarest palm-leaf MSS. in India. Copies of some of the this Mss. in Bhandar are not available Ajayapal, the successor of the famous minister, (? King) Kumarpal, who with his brother Vastupal, (?) was famous for
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