Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 2

SR No.: 018038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 416
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 15 MB

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PREFACE
It is a pleasant feature to note that only after a lapse of about seven months this second part of the Descriptive Catalogue of the Agamika Literature gets published. This is due to the fact that this time the progress in printing has been even a little bit more than double of what it has been in the case of Part I.
To begin with, I may say a few words about the procedure adopted in this second part.
As already stated in the preface (pp. xiii-xiv ) of Part I of this Volume, the headings of description, the inter-arrangement of descriptive sheets pertaining to the same text, and the matter to be included. here were: practically decided by Rao Bahadur Dr. S. K. Belvalkar, M. A., Ph. D., the then Hon. Secretary of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and Hon. Superintendent of the Mss. Department.
I may however note that some changes have been introduced in the general outlines of this part. The mere expression “Devanagari characters” used by me rather reluctantly in the first part and in the first 8 forms of this second part, has been found to be inadequate so far as the special features of most of the Jaina Mss. are concerned. Consequently I have here added the word "Jaina" before "Devanā. gari characters" where necessary. The expression “ Jaina Devanāgari character " is used in Prof. A. B. Keith's Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, Vol. II, pt. II, Nos. 7441, 7442 etc.
It is a fact that the Jaina Devanāgari characters differ in various ways from the non-Jaina Devanāgarī characters. This will be clear from the chart of Jaina and non-Jaina characters given at the end as Appendix I.' Since, in this chart some of the Jaina characters
1 Three pages of this Appendix have been printed at the Nirnayasagar Press, Bombay. On p. 2, 1. 18 sy ought to have been placed before out, and that the special syinbol in Hindi ought to have been used for u.