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Dr. Winternitz of Prague, Dr. F. W. Thomas of Oxford and Dr. Otto Strauss of the University of Breslau, as being notable" for its choice of rare and valuable works as well as for the care with which it is edited and printed” and as “showing a high standard of erudition in the State of Mysore."
4. The Library may be said to function in four distinct departments or sections :
(i) The Office, with the Curator as its head.
(ii) The Manuscripts Section.--This department aims at, and takes all possible care for, the safe conservation of valuable manuscripts in the Library, and is, therefore, a very important section of the Library. A vigorous and systematic search for manuscripts within and outside the State is being made by the members of the staff, and fresh manuscripts are being added year after year. The manuscripts are either of palm-leaf or of paper. The scripts used in the majority of the manuscripts are Nāgarī, Grantha, Kannada and Telugu, Malayāļa and Tuļu being used in a few manuscripts. Transcripts of manuscripts of this Library are being supplied to scholars in Madras, Poona, the Panjab, Benares, Calcutta and other places in connection with their research and editing work. The oldest of the manuscripts in the Library may belong to the 12th or the 13th century A.D.
These manuscripts are classified under the following heads :
Part 1Vedas. I. Vedas–Samhitās, Brāhmaṇās, Aranyakās, t'pa
nişads, Mantra Sangraha and Bhāşya. II. Vedānga-(a) Sikşā. (6) Kalpa-Śrouta-Sūtra
Bhāsya-Prayoga. (c) Gșhya-Sūtra-Bhāşya
Prayoga. (d) Dharma Sūtra Bhasya. III. Smrti-(a) Mülasmrti. (6) Nibandha. (c) Trea
tises dealing with Vratas. IV. Itihāsa, V. Purāņa.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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