Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

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

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Preface
II. In this connection I may mention that Dr. Belvalkar had desired that I should give good many Appendices, over and above the three kinds of Appendices given by him in "Vol.I : Vedic Literature. Part I: Samhită and Brahmaņas”: As, in all other matters of detail I have, here, too, acted up to his desire and have been all along preparing during the course of printing of this part of Vol. XVII at least six Appendices, in addition to three pratically prepared in 1933. The complete list is as under:
(1) Index of Authors.' ( II ) Index of Works. (III) Classification of Works according to languages. (IV) List of Works according to the date of their composition. (V) Correspondence table of Manuscripts. 2 (VI) Chronological order of dated Mss. (VII) Names of places where Mss. were written and works
composed. (VIII) Names of scribes, presentees and others. (IX) Abbreviations occurring in Mss.
Out of these nine Appendices, the first two are features common to almost all catalogues, especially the Descriptive ones, though the method followed here will be found to be differing in details. As for example, Prof. H. D. Velankar, M.A., has treated both these Appendices under one head - Index of Jaina Authors and Works" in his " Descriptive Catalogue of Samsksta and Prākṣta Mss. in the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'. Therein he has only mentioned the titles of works without indicating the names of the authors against nominuous works. Furthermore, against the name of an author, he has indicated his works by the Serial Nos. noted in his Cata
1. It will not be too mach to hope that a similar index of authors when published at the end of each of the Volumes XVIII and XIX, with the necessary information supplemented from other sources will form a pretty “Onomasticon of the Jaina Writers” dealt with, in these Volumes.
2 In Prof. Keith's Catalogue the word " concordance " is used. And I, too would have done the same, had it not been obligatory to maintain uniformity with the other Catalogues published by this Institute.