Tenth Report on Search of Hindi Manuscripts for Years 1917 to 1919

SR No.: 010837
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rai Bahaddur Hiralal
Publisher: Allahabad Government Press
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 532
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 38 MB

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PREFACE.
may not be availed of, a second opportunity to catalogue them may never supervene. Of course these would be exceptional cases. Ordinarily it is hoped it would be possible to stick to the approved programme. In future, the enquiry to be made will be more detailed as suggested by Sir George Grierson, to whom the previous reports were submitted for opinion by the local Government. That great linguist appreciated the work, saying he often used the reports for reference and derived assistance from them. The Nagari Prachāriņi Sabha have now introduced a new form of information sheet which has been used during a part of the period, which the present report covers. The reader will, therefore, find a lack of uniformity in the information quoted in respect of various manuscripts. The future work is expected to be more uniform, thorough and efficient than it has been in the past. It is also hoped that the reports will be submitted with the regularity which was the marked feature of the first 12 years.
If Pandit Syama Bihari Misra or his brother had had the same leisure as before to give a final form to the last report, there is no doubt a lot of valuable information, which must have come to his notice during the course of the search, would have been on record. It must not, however, be supposed that the duty of writing a report was wholly neglected. As a matter of fact a draft was duly prepared, but the Nagari Prachariņi Sabha felt that it required touching up. By a curious combination of circumstances it fell to the lot of a stranger to the United Provinces to do it. The present writer, whose report cannot but be a mere skeleton for want of local knowledge, while editing and giving the final form to the report has not ignored the opinions of any consequence expressed in the draft and he has given them due consideration by discussing them in the body of the report, especially as differences of opinions, in regard to the age of certain