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3. So much has already been said about Acharya Hemachandra that it is hardly necessary for me to dilate on that topic here. I shall therefore touch a few points which perhaps escaped the notice of previous speakers. It pained me to see that no reference has been made to the interest the Ruling House of the Gaekwar took in the manuscripts deposited in the Patan Bhandars, particularly by the late Maharaja Sayaji Rao, The Third.
4. If my memory serves me right, even before my birth in 1892, when oriental scholarship was in its infancy, His Highness sent Mr. Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi to examine the Patan Bhandars. He examined everything that was shown to him and conipiled a nominal catalogue of the manuscripts which was later published. This was really the first exhaustive catalogue.
5. Later, in the year 1914, the then Sanskrit librarian, Mr. C. D. Dalal was sent to Patan under orders of the Maharaja with a view to publish a descriptive catalogue indicating beginnings and ends of works, colophons and subjectmatter. The Officer worked hard for months and took hurried notes which were later developed by his successor in office. The first volume describing all palm-leaf manuscripts was published in the year 1937.
6. Again, in 1933, under orders of His
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