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PREFACE
The present volume is in continuation of the Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Jodhpur collection of the Institute, the first part of which has already come out in the year 1963. This year we aimed at covering 7,500 entries. The second part of the catalogue has been divided into two sections A and B, so arranged as to embrace 5,900 entries of the manuscripts in the Jodhpur collection. Rest of the 1,600 entries will be brought out in a separate volume for the Jaipur collection which is under publication. The present part (II-A) comprises 2,792 entries, and the rest would go in Pt. (II-B). It was not possible to have included both the sections into a single volume, as it would have rendered it quite unwieldy. Part II-A contains details of manuscripts on Vedas and Vaidika, Vedangas, Smriti, Itihasa and Purana, Philosophy, Buddhistic and Jaina subjects. The remaining subjects will be contained in Vol. II-B.
Thus, cataloguing of manuscripts upto accession number 10, 100, excluding the works other than those in Sanskrit and Prakrit, has been completed in both the parts.
The manuscripts have been classified in accordance with the instructions laid down by the Ministry of Education, New Delhi. Abbreviations of subject-headings have, however, been formed for convenience and the same have been used in the subject coloumn. Extracts from important manuscripts given in the appendices will be useful for comparing them with similar manuscripts and are thus meant to supply a lot of information regarding the authors, commentators, scribes and the places and circumstances that led them yield the A separate coloumn for additional particulars carries the notices still further.
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