Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [13 of 69]
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13. When I visited Indore, the inhabitants were just returning to it after having been scattered by a severe epidemic of plague. By the advice of the Acting Agent to the Governor General I saw the Karbhari of the State and the latter arranged that the Rajopadhye should take me round to see such private collections as he came to know of. With the Rajopadhye's help I saw, besides his own collection, two belonging to certain Shastris, one of whom had died some years ago, and a collection in a Śvetāmbara Jaina temple. Besides these I saw three collections, two of which accidentally came to my notice and had not been known even to people in Indore itself. The Rajopadhye also told me of three or four Shastris, whom the recent plague had carried off and who, he believed, had possessed manuscripts of works relating to sacrificial literature, medicine, &c. Their houses had been locked up, the inmates having gone far away on account of plague, and there was no chance of their manuscripts being seen should they have been left behind. The Rajopadhye further informed me that he had heard that the manuscripts were secretly being disposed of for very small considerations. There were two other collections I had heard of, but the owners of those had not yet returned to Indore and I could not of course see them.
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