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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
PREFACE
The prua ration of the Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal was undertakei, by the late Mahāmahopādhyāya Haraprasāda Shāstrī, M.A., D.Lit., C.I.E., F.A.S.B., in a series of fifteen volumes of which the first six dealing with the Buddhist MSS., Veda, Smrti, History and Geography, Purāņa and Vyākarana, appeared during his lifetime. The seventh volume describing the Kāvya MSS. was published in 1934 three years after his death, of which the complete MS. was prepared and almost wholly seen by him through the press. The late Mahāmahopādhyāya left in addition the entire MSS. of the remaining eight volumes of the Catalogue which he divided into the following groups, namely, Tantra, Philosophy, Jyotiņa, Jaina, Vernacular, Vaidyaka, Miscellaneous, Addenda and Supplement.
The materials left by the Mahāmahopādhyāya Shāstri were complete and systematically arranged in the form of slips, TL required however ti he checked and verified with the vaj manuscripts described—a task which the late Mahāmahopārting could not finish, as it was his habit to defer the verificare the last and then embody the necessary corrections in a proofs. This work of verification was entrusted to Prof. C'..n Chakravarti, M.A., in 1933 by the Council of the R.A.S.B. thoroughly checked the materials and made corrections necessary. Prof. Chakravarti has made some additio omitted portions which he considered unnecessary ani' He is also responsible for seeing the entire proof press. In the work of verification and correction hi assisted by Pandit Aghorenath Bhattacharyya, th in charge of the Society's Sanskrit Manuscripts.
The present Part deals with 648 MSS. on T sprint it was the idea of the late Mahāmahopādhyāya to: to the entire collection of manuscripts on Ta SHETI
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