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In the Balātkāra gana temple there are 27 bundles of Kanarese manuscripts manuscripts written on palm leaves in
Kanarese character. Each bundle contains more than one manuscript. No Kanarese scholar was available to examine them in any detail. They are all written on palm leaves. A list of the works has been given in Appendix II.
From what has been said above it will be scen that a Conclusion
critical study of the Karañjā records is
likely to yield valuable results, about which mere conjectures have been thrown out at the present stage They have had to be hazarded with a view to draw attention to controversial matters. From the linguistic point alone there is enough of material for a good harvest specially in connection with Prakrit compositions of various dates. The Brahmanical literature as found in the manuscripts (I the Province equally affords a field for investigation, which may also vicld gratifying results. A Sastri at Nagpur possesses a fourth Sataka of Bhartrihari till now credited with 3 Satakas only To vive another instance, works like Nagarjuna or Hariwijaya. the last with double entendre describing the victory of Hari. while the same text directs the moiements in chess play, are umongst the rare manuscripts which form the treasures of the province. What I now really wanted is the intensive study of works Icit by so many court pocts and scholars belonging to some thirty different dynasties, which ruled this province from time to time during the last 2,300 years, a notice of which has been briefly given in the Introduction to my "Descriptive lists of Inscriptions found in the Central Provinces and Berar" besides a nur ber of other scholars, who wrote a number of valuable books without any royal patronage.
