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Highness a Committee consisting of the Vidyad. hikari, two members of the Oriental Institute and a few new non-officials was sent to Patan to report to him the condition of the manuscripts and their preservation. At that time it was discovered that several valuable manuscripts in the Khetarwasi Bhandar were destroyed by ants, and leaves were glued together and thus lost. The Committee under the circumstances reconimended to Govrnment that a separate building where all manuscripts could be accomodated should be built.
7. Besides these, it was under the orders of the Maharaja, the Gaekwar's Oriental Series was started primarily with a view to publish important manuscripts as may be found suitable, from the Bhandars. This Series, at a modest estimate has published nearly 25 manuscripts obtained from Patan alone.
8. The most important work to be published in the series with material solely derived from Patan Bhandars is perhaps the Tattvitsangraha of Santarakshita with the commentary of Kamalasila, both professors at Nalanda in the 8th Century A. D. This original Buddhist work in the Sanskrit was entirely lost in India, but there was a Tibetan translation of it in the Tangyur collection. It is a voluminous work of 20,000
verses, and perhaps the only work where Yogacara doctrines are elaborately treated.
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