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usually met with in the Jaina Mss. could not be given for want of „uitable types, I got two plates of the same prepared according to ny instructions. For the necessary arrangements made in this connection I am indebted to Dr. V. 3. Sukthankar, M. A., Ph. D., che Hon. Superintendent of the Mss. Department and the Hon. Secretary of the Institute.
It has been found that on the whole most of the Ja na Mss. begin in a number of ways, and that therein blale ( 77 ) styled hy some scholars as a Jaina diagram occupies a prominent place. As she necessary type for this bhale was not available while printing Part I, it was omitted ; but now this discrepancy is here removed for which I have to thank Mr. P. K. Gode, M. A., the Curator of the Institute.
There was up till now another discrepancy remaining to be attended to. It pertained to the printing of letter-numerals used for foliation in Jaina Mss. As it was not found possible to do nore than to give as approximate a representation of these letteraumerals as was consistent with the materials at the disposal of the press of the Institute, seven plates prepared under my nstructions have been given here. In this connection, too, I have o thank Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, who most willingly agreed to get che corresponding blocks prepared, when I drew his kind attention
o the fact that I had to deal with a number of Jaina palmyra Mss. forming a very rich collection in the Government Mss. Library leposited at the Institute.
During the course of the printing of this second part, I got an opportunity of consulting Prof. Keith's Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. So, from the
leventh form, information about additional Jaina Mss. has been ncorporated, and the corresponding information connected with ibe Mss. described in the first part of this Volume has been
1 See Appendix II, pp 4 and 5. On p. 5 there ought to be a instead of a in the small square inside the sist square.
2 See Appendix II, p. 12 3 Two of them are given in Appendis Ill, and the rest in Appendix 11.
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| SR No. | 018038 |
| Book Title | Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 2 |
| 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 |