Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts Part 1

SR No.: 018011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinvijay
Publisher: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Jodhpur
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 640
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 8 MB

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PREFACE
The volume, in hand, is a catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts collected in the Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute upto the year 1956 from 1951, the year of its inception. There are entries of 3,175 manuscripts in the tabular form as laid down by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of India, New Delhi, under whose grant-in-aid the present volume is brought out. It is the first part of the catalogue of manuscripts in the Rajasthan Oriental Rescarch Intitute, the subsequent parts of which dealing with the collections made during the following years are under preparation and will be out in due course.
The manuscripts have been classified as per instructions of the Ministry. Abbreviations of subject-headings have, however, been formed for convenience and the same have been used in the subjectcoloumn. Extracts from important manuscripts given in the Appendix will be useful for comparing similar manuscripts and are meant to supply a wealth of information regarding the authors, commentators, scribes and the places and circumstances where and under which these were written. The names of the scribes and the places have been mentioned in coloumn IIth for additional particulars.
An index containing alphabetical lists of works, authors and commentators, scribes and place-names, has also been affixed to the catalogue for easy reference. It would be really very interesting in some cases to study the names of various places in Rajasthan and Gujrat with their ancient nomenclature as also to trace the family and interest of the scribes who have written these manuscripts with their back and neck quite bent down burning the mid-night oil.
All possible care has been taken in compiling and editing the catalogue according to the instructions set by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of India, still it is possible that inaccuracies, perceptible or otherwise, might have crept in this