Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 17 Part 04

SR No.: 018119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1948
Total Pages: 306
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 16 MB

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PREFACE
It is a matter of pleasure to me to place before the world of scholars this part of Vol. XVII of “Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Collections of Manuscripts" deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. It marks the completion of the description of all the works of Vol. XVII which was undertaken by me along with two other Vols. XVIII and XIX as far back as 1930. The first part of this very Volume formed the very first publication of the Bhandarkar 0. R. Institute among the publications of Descriptive Catalogues of Mss., since the transfer of the Government Mss. Library to the Institute in 1918.
This part comprises ( 1 ) some of the miscellaneous works connected with the canonical literature of the Jainas, ( 2 ) ritualistic works and (3) supplementary works which could not be incorporated in the earlier portions. The nine appendices already mentioned in my Preface to Part II and of which the contents are briefly explained in my Preface to Part III, are not included in this part, though it was so intended when Part III was published in 1940. The exigencies of the war are partly responsible for this modification of the original plan. The printing of this part was discontinued for about four years, and even when it was resumed in January 1947, the progress was very slow. I therefore requested Dr. R. N. Dandekar, the Hon. Secretary of the Institute, to reserve the Appendices for Part V and to publish them along with the “ logic " section of Vol. XVIII, a major portion of which has been in press since 1940. I am thankful to him for his compliance with my request. Thus there will be five parts of Vol. XVII, the last part comprising the Appendices.
There is nothing new to be recorded so far as the plan of preparation of this part IV is concerned. It is practically based upon the general lines followed in the previous parts I-III and laid down by Rao Bahadur Dr. S. K. Belvalkar, then Hon. Secretary of the Institute. They have determined the inter-arrangement of descriptive sheets dealing with the same text and the system of transliteration. So far as all the four parts are concerned I may