Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts Part 2 B

SR No.: 018013
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinvijay
Publisher: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Jodhpur
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 646
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 9 MB

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PREFACE
We have pleasure in placing before the readers Part II (B) of the 'Catalogue of Sanskrit & Prakrit Mss.' in the Rajasthan Orien. tal: Research Institute (Jodhpur Collection) in continuation of Part II (A) already published last year. As already mentioned in preface to Part II (A) the total number of entries of manuscripts in Part II (A & B), in the Jodhpur collection, was to be s.900 but on actual cataloguing 25 Mss. were left out being non-Sanskrit & nonPrakrit ones. Part II (C) will contain entries of 1,608 Mss. in the Jaipur collection, the printing of which is also nearing completion.
According to the classification laid down by the Ministry of Education, New Delhi, manuscripts bearing on the first seven subjects viz., Veda & Vaidika, Vedangas, Smriti, Itihas & Purana, Philosophy, Buddhistic and Jain, have been included in Part II (A) comprising 2,792 entries. The volume in hand contains details of 3,083 Mss. on the remaining subjects namely Bhakti, Tantra, Agama, Mantrashastra, Kavya, Vyakarana, Kosha and Nighantu, Chhandas-shastra, Alankar, Natya-shastra, Geet, Shilpa, Artha and Raja-shastra, Ratnashastra, Kama-shastra, Ayurved, and Jyotish.
The method and technique adopted in preparing the catalogue has been the same as in the previous volumes. Extracts from important manuscripts from the point of their subject, author, date or some important information contained in the post-colophonic entries have been given in the appendix. It would be very interesting and illuminating to go through these extracts. It is obvious that all manuscripts are generally not correctly written. Some of them contain many scribal and other errors. Least efforts are made to correct the mistakes or to edit the portions reproduced in this appendix so as to give an accurate idea of the manuscript and the text contained in it. Some of the manuscripts included in this volume are rare and unpublished. Scholars working in this field will be interested in and benefitted with these entries, I hope.
Inspite of all care taken in compiling and editing this work, it is just possible, many mistakes might have crept in through oversight.