Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 1 Hymnology

SR No.: 018037
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 402
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 14 MB

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Preface
Of these ten appendices, I, II and X were prepared as far back as 1936 and the rest during the years 1954 to 1956. In 1941 it struck me that I should replace serial numbers of works by page-numbers for Appendices VII-IX of Vol. XVII. As this change was made in the case of Vol. XVII, I have adopted it for this Vol. XIX, too, though it has been a great strain to me, especially when I am advanced in age.
The first appendix is divided into two groups by taking into account the sect of "authors". The Svetambara ones are mentioned first to suit the plan chalked out for the Jaina Catalogue. This arrangement applies to Appendix II, too, and partly to Appendix VIII while dealing with proper names of monks and nuns in special. This very procedure is adopted for the appendices of Vols. XVIII and XX.
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The plan for the presentation of the Mss. included in this Volume XIX is practically based on the general lines followed for Vol. XVII (pts. I-IV) and Vol. XVIII (pt. I ) and laid down by Rao Bahadur Dr. S. K. Belvalkar, then Hon. Secretary of the Institute. They have determined the inter-arrangement of the descriptive sheets dealing with the same text and the system of transliteration.
The exact plan followed by me in the preparation of this volume may be indicated as follows:
Works composed in languages other than Sanskrit are assigned Sanskrit titles, over and above those in the very languages (Sanskrit excluded) in which the works are composed. The latter titles are placed in brackets just below the former ones as it was done in the case of the Prakrit works dealt with in Vol. XVII. At times, an alternative title or even a popular one is indicated, but, in order to distinguish it from the former, this is placed within rectangular brackets. All independent works have been arranged alphabetically according to their Sanskrit titles, whereas the commentaries pertaining to them are arranged as far as possible chronologically.
Through oversight Nos. 77, 102 and 112 were not properly arranged. Really speaking, they ought to have been assigned places prior to those for Nos. 54, 98 and 81 respectively.