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The titles of the works which these MSS. contain and the names of their authors, the number of leaves of each MS. and its extent in Slokas, and the dates of those MSS. which are dated, are given below. 18. The number of MSS. belonging to the Government
collection which are now under 4. Total number of MSS. hitherto collected.
my charge amounts to 2,904.
35 of these contain works in Kaśmîrî, Hindî, and Persian ; about one thousand are Jain, and the rest Brahminical MSS. 81 are palm-leaf MSS., 68 on Bhûrjapattra, and the rest on paper.
19. In addition to the MSS. used by myself, 99 MSS. are on loan with different scholars in Europe and in India.
The scholars in Europe to whom MSS. have been lent are:
Professor Aufrecht, Bonn. Mons. Barth, Paris. Professor Bühler, Vienna. Professor Delbrück, Jena. Professor Eggeling, Edinburgh. Professor Goldschmidt, Strassburg. Professor Jacobi, Münster. Professor Jolly, Würzburg. Dr. Klatt, Berlin. Professor Müller, Oxford. Professor Roth, Tübingen. Dr. von Schröder, Jena.
Dr. Zachariae, Greifswald. The scholars in India are:
Professor Bhandarkar, Bombay. Dr. Hoernle, Calcutta.
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