Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues

Author(s): Subhash C Bishwas, M K Prajapati
Publisher: Eastern Book Linkers

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The project has also benefitted greatly from people who, while not regular members of the team, acted in a consultative capacity or provided some specialist service. Among them must be mentioned the following in particular : Dr K. V. Sarma, an eminent Sanskrit scholar in the Adyar Library and Research Centre, Chennai; Professor N. Gangadharan, University of Madras; Muni Jhormalji, Seva Mandir, Jodhpur; Dr K.T. Pandurangi of Bangalore; Dr M.J. Prajapati, Sanskrit Academy, Dwarka; Allan Thrasher of the U.S. Library of Congress, Graham Shaw of Oriental & India Office Collections of the British Library and Dipen Mitra.
I am grateful to Debal Kar, Meena Sivarajan, R. Prem Kumar, M.K. Patel, R.V. Savani and several others for rendering various kinds of support at different stages of the project.
Anybody familiar with this kind of work will know what care and patience, what scholarly knowledge of language and script and judgment are required in the process of collecting material from different parts of the country--in sorting, sifting and the final arrangement of it. I am indebted to my colleague, Manibhai K. Prajapati, who spent so much of his time and cnergy with me at various stages of the project.
Tam grateful to the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for providing me a grant without which it would not have been possible to compile this bibliography. It took me longer than expected to complete the task. There was always good reason for including an item towards the end and this demanded ever more time and effort. Deadlines became meaningless and irrelevant. It is pleasant to record here that INTACH, for its part, has been extremely understanding and spared me from too many embarrassing enqueries about the slowness of progress.
There has no doubt been many omissions and I am aware of some glaring ones-even at the stage when things appeared to have been finalized. I plead guilty, in advance, to many a valid criticism.
S.C.B.
Delhi 3 October 1996.