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Report on the Search for the Hindi Manuscripts for the years 1917, 1918 and 1919.
Districts worked.-This is the tenth report on the search for Hindi Manuscripts begun in 1900. Six annual reposts were first issued followed by two triennial and one quinquennial. The present report deals with the years 1917, 1918 and 1919. The search work was this time carried on in the districts of Aligarh, Muttra, Bulandshahar, Allāhābād, Partabgarh, Meerut, Rae Bareli, Farukhābād, Fyzābād (specially at Ayodhyā) and Lucknow and in the States of Bharatpur and Indore.
2. Libraries examined and manuscripts found.-The most important libraries examined were the Sarasvati Bhanḍāra, Lakshmana Kota, Oudh, the Bharatpur Public Library and the Kālākānkar Estate Library. Altogether 586 manuscripts were noticed of which six turned out to be non-Hindi and 132 belonging to the period later than 1850, which do not come within the survey. Thus the total stands at 448 including some charts of doubtful value. As many as 112 manuscripts did not show the author's name, while 336 books were written by 206 different authors. A few manuscripts were collections of miscellaneous poems by various authors without any note of the compilers' names.
3. Authors by centuries.-The subjoined table classifies the authors according to the centuries to which they belonged :
Number
Number of
of works.
336
authors. 12th
206
1
14th
1
Century in which the authors flourished.
15th 16th 17th
1
19
27
18th 19th Unknown.
99
66
25
