Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1880 1881

Author(s): F Kielhorn
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Dr. Kunte, Bombay. The Hon'ble V. N. Mandlik, Bombay. Rûo Saheb S. P. Pandit, Bombay. Professor Paranjpe, Kolapur. Professor Peterson, Bombay. Dr. Rajendralâl Mitra, Calcutta. Dr. Thibaut, Benares.
Mr. Vâmanâchârya, Poona. 20. I append to this report (A) a description of the palmleaf MSS., and (B) a classified list of the paper MSS. acquired during the year. As Government desire this report to be submitted at an early date, my remarks on the MSS. are necessarily short, but they will, I trust, suffice to enable other scholars to identify the works contained in the collection. As I consider the palm-leaf MSS. to be of very great value, I have endeavoured to describe the state each MS. is in as accurately as possible. I have also copied all statements regarding the authors of the different works and the writers by whom the MSS. were written, and any other interesting details concerning the history or former possessors of particular MSS. In reproducing these remarks I have strictly adhered to the readings of the originals before me, and have abstained from correcting even the most palpable blunders.
-In an Appendix I give a list of the MSS. collected during the year 1873-74, which has not yet been submitted to Government. A catalogue of the MSS. purchased by Dr. Bühler in 1879-80 is in preparation, and will be published together with the report for the current year.
21. The total expenditure on account of the search for MSS. during the year 1880-81 is Rs. 6,728-7-9. Dr. Bühler's as well my own accounts have been rendered to the Accountant General.
22. In concluding this report I venture to express my hope that the results attained during the year will be consi