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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
To this may be added :4. A statement of the total number of MSS. hitherto
collected, and of the use made of them by different
scholars. 4. The first part of the work has been chiefly entrusted to
native agency. Dr. Bühler left 1. Collection of information
India before the commencement regarding Libraries.
of the travelling season; and I have been prevented by my duties in the College and by the work of cataloguing the numerous MSS. acquired during the year, from leaving Poona during the cold weather. The main result of such inquiries as I was able to make by letter has been the discovery, in the Southern Circle, of four ancient Jain Libraries which contain a large number of paper and palm-leaf MSS. In the Northern Circle the native agents employed have made six tours. They were specially directed to acquire ancient palm-leaf MSS., and to search for works of the Maitrậyanîya Sakhà of the Yajurveda and of the Paippalâda Sâkhân of the Atharvaveda. For the former purpose they again went to Cambay and Pathan (Aṇhilwad), where this time their labours were very successful, and in carrying out the orders for the search of Vedic books they travelled through the districts of Surat, Broach, Kaira, the Gaikwari territory and Kathiawar. Their endeavours to procure MSS. of the Paippalâda Sâkhâ were fruitless, but they succeeded in procuring a considerable number of works of the Saunaka Sakhâ of the Atharvaveda and of the Maitrayaņiya Sâkhâ. 5. With the assistance of a former pupil, Mr. Paranjpe,
who is now a Professor in the 2. Preparation of lists and Kolapur College, I have obtained catalogues.
rough lists of the MSS. in two of the Jain Libraries mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Of works which would interest Sanskrit scholars generally these lists mention hardly any besides the sakațâyana and Jainendra-vyakaranas, but they give the titles of many Jain
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