Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tanjore Vol 05

SR No.: 020230
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P P S Shastri
Publisher: Government of Madras
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 525
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 19 MB

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Overseas. And it would appear that arrangements were very nearly ready to sell the whole collection outright at an assessed value, when public attention was focussed on certain remarks of Dr. Burnell to the effect that "it would not be possible to form a collection like that at Tanjore at a less cost than £50,000". The parties concern. ed had perforce to wake up and the deal was not immediately concluded. The public of Tanjore also began to interest themselves in the affair adequately. It was rightly considered as a question of national pride. The parties in 0. S. No. 28 of 1912 on the file of the Subordinate Judge of Tanjore agreed that it was eminently fit that the Library should be preserved and maintained as a Public Library in trust for the public and removed the Library and one lakh of rupees to provide for its up-keep, from the subject-matter of the suit. The Government of Madras in G. O. No. 1806 Home (Education), dated 5th October 1918, accordingly took possession of the game under the Charitable Endowments Act and have framed a scheme for the management of the same.
Since the Library became a Public Trust there has been a marked improvement in the reception accorded to it by the public. Various liberal and generous-minded benefactors have come forward with magnanimous offers. The Library has been enriched with several very fine collections of manuscripts, every one of thom rare, valuable and very interesting. The Kagalkar collection, Jambu. nātha Bhat Lāņdagai collection and the Patanga Avadhūta collection--all these three alone number 2181 manuscripts. Besides these, the Tyāgarāja Svāmi collection which alone contains more than 1000 manuscripts ; then the minor colleotions—the Subrahmanya Sastri collection, Subrahmaṇya Rao collection, Ramacan dra Gapapat collection, Nilakantha Sãstri collection, Devabaákara Tawker collection, Gopalakrona Davalekar collection, and Kruglji