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Preface
usually met with in the Jaina Mss. could not be given for want of suitable types, I got two plates' of the same prepared according to ny instructions. For the necessary arrangements made in this connection I am indebted to Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, M. A., Ph. D., the Hon. Superintendent of the Mss. Department and the Hon. Secretary of the Institute..
It has been found that on the whole most of the Ja na Mss. begin in a number of ways, and that therein bhale (W ) styled by some scholars as a Jaina diagram occupies a prominent place.? As the necessary type for this bhale was not available while printing Part I, it was omitted ; but now this discrepancy is here removed for which I have to thank Mr. P. K. Gode, M. A., the Curator of the Institute.
There was up till now another discrepancy remaining to be attended to. It pertained to the printing of letter-numerals used for foliation in Jaina Mss. As it was not found possible to do inore than to give as approximate a representation of these letter. numerals as was consistent with the materials at the disposal of the press of the Institute, seven plates prepared under my instructions have been given here. In this connection, too, I have to thank Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, who most willingly agreed to get the corresponding blocks prepared, when I drew his kind attention to the fact that I had to deal with a number of Jaina palmyra Mss. forming a very rich collection in the Government Mss. Library deposited at the Institute.
During the course of the printing of this second part, I got an opportunity of consulting Prof. Keith's Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. So, from the eleventh form, information about additional Jaina Mss. has been incorporated, and the corresponding information connected with the Mss. described in the first part of this Volume has been
1 See Appendix II, pp. 4 and s. On p. 5 there ought to be gi instead of pi, in the small square inside the sist square.
2 See Appendix II, p. 12. 3 Two of them are given in Appendix III, and the rest in Appendix IV.