Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 19

Author(s): Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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Preface
( i ) Part I: Śvetām bara works 1-321 (sheets 1–765 ). ( ii) „ II: „ „ 322- Cu 766-1786)
& ten Appendices (iii) „ III: Digambara works (sheets 1-492) &
ten Appendices As regards Vol. XVIII ( sheets 3065 +1422=4487 ) it is to be published in five parts. Of them Part I ( works 1-305 ; sheets 1-681 ) was issued in 1952. The printing of the remaining parts will be commenced as soon as the textual matter of Parts II & III of Sec. II of Vol. XIX gets printed, in case Sec. III of Vol. XIX is to be printed last. These parts of Vol. XVIII will include the following :
Part II Śvetämbara works (contd.) „ III , (contd.) & ten
Appendices , IV Digambara , „ V
„ (contd.) & ten
Appendices ** There is practically nothing new to add so far as the plan followed by me for the presentation of this part I of Section II of Vol. XIX is concerned. It is based ûpon the general lines laid down in 1930 by Rao Bahadur Dr. S. K. Belvalkar, the then Hon. Secretary of the Institute and adopted by me for Vol. XVII ( Parts I-IV ), Vol. XVIII ( Part I) and Vol. XIX ( Section 1, Parts I-II). These lines have determined the inter-arrangement of the descriptive sheets dealing with the same text and the system of transliteration.
Works composed in languages other than Sanskrit, are assigned Sanskrit titles, in addition to those in the very languages (Sanskrit excluded ) in which the works are composed. The latter titles are placed in brackets just below the former ones. At times an alternative title or even a popular one is indicated, and it is placed in rectangular brackets for the sake of distinction.