Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscript in the Central Provinces and Berar

SR No.: 011136
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 491
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 36 MB

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In the Bālātkāra gana temple there are 27 bundles of Kanarese manuscripts.
its manuscripts written on palm lcaves in
* Kanarese character. Each bundle contains more than one manuscript. No Kanaresc 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 seen that a Conclusion
critical study of the Kārañjā 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 hari est specially in connection with Prakrit compositions of various dates. The Brahmanical literature as found in the manuscripts of the Province equally a fiords a field for investigation, which may also yield gratifying results. A Sastri at Nagpur possesses a fourth Sataka of Bhartrihari till now credited with 3 Satakas only. To give another instance, works like Nāgārjuna or Harivijaya, the last with double entendre describing the victory of Hari, while the same text directs the movements in chess play, arc amongst the rare manuscripts which form the treasures of the province. What is now really wanted is the intensive study of works left by so many court poets and scholars helunging to some thirty different dyrasties, 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 number of other scholars, who wrote a number of valuablc books without any royal patronic