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JOURNAL
OF THE
BOMBAY BRANCH
OF THE
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
EXTRA NUMBER.
A Fourth Report of Operations in search of Sanskrit MSS. in the Bombay Circle. April 1887-March 1892. By PROFESSOR PETERSON.
The chief feature of the present Report must be the foregoing Index of Authors, in which an endeavour has been made to present in a form convenient for reference all the information about the various writers that can be gleaned from the extracts furnished with my first three Reports. That information has been supplemented, wherever it was possible and seemed desirable, from other sources, so that the whole forms, it is hoped, a pretty complete Onomasticon of the writers dealt with. I cannot hope to have escaped mistakes. The ground is one which it is difficult to traverse without tripping. But I trust it will be thought that due care has not been wanting, and that the list is calculated to be of some little service. As the work of printing the extracts for the present Report went on pari passu with the Index it has not been possible to include any reference to them. They will be dealt with, in Index form, in my next Report.
The list of manuscripts purchased is for the period from April 1887 to March 1892. During the whole of that long period I had
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