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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in this Library. In their G. O. No. Mis 563 Dated 9th April 1927, the Government of Madras were pleased to allot the necessary funds for a three-year programme for carrying out the long delayed desire of the Committee. The work of cataloguing and printing has since been pushed forward with great rapidity.
The First Volume of the Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts is now published. The first Volume contains notices of 697 Manuscripts belonging to the Veda Section. The Veda section is expected to comprise in all about 2000 Manuscripts and will be completed in three Volumes. The third and last Volume will contain a detailed introduction to all the Manuscripts contained in the Veda Section besides the various indexes and other useful information.
In issuing this Catalogue, I have great pleasure in acknowledge ing gratefully the loyal and ever-ready assistance I have been uniformly getting from Rao Sabib. T. Sambamurthi Rao avl. B.A. B.L. the energetic Honorary Secretary of the Library and the permanent staff working under him, on whom and on the special staff sanctioned by Government have fallen all the arduous and exacting work connected with the rapid preparation of the work for the Press.
TANJORE 15-2--1928.
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P.P. S. Sastri.
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