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ried off by cholera, which prevailed widely at Nâsik about that time. He was a man of learning and great intelligence and did very good service. He possessed much influence with the people at Nâsik and hence was able to examine for us so many collections at the place. Otherwise the jealousy as regards one's literary treasures is still so strong that it would not have been possible to do that amount of work there.
Account of the Manuscripts in the Government Collections.—I will close this report by a short account of the present state of the collections in my charge. The following table will show the number of manuscripts collected for Government each year since 1868-69 and the number lent to scholars and forwarded to Germany to be catalogued according to Professor Kielhorn's scheme :
Collection of
atol NUMBER OF MANUSCRIPTS Number Number Number LENT TO SCHOLARS.
sent to jof Manuof Ma
Europe scripts nuscripts
to be now in collect
cata- the In In
In al.
logued. Library. Europe. America. India. 1oguelibrary.
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120
NI
N
1868-69 1869-70 1870-71 1871-72 1872-73 1873-74 1874-75 1875-76 1877-78 1879-80 A 1879-80 1880-81 1881-82 A 1881-82 ... 1882-83
57 422 200 289
54 838
54 428 125 413 196 467 772
42 111
53 408 189 268 51 704 54 404 125 384 180 465 771
Total ... 4,482
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