Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [25 of 69]
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25. Of the collections existing in the place itself I examined fifteen, one of which was a collection belonging to the Digambara Jainas and another, a small one, belonging to the State. Two or three of them were pretty big, and one was only a part of a larger collection, the other part being at Ujjain. One of the bigger collections did not properly belong to Gwalior, but had recently come to be there on account of certain circumstances. It belongs to the Chief of a petty State near Jhansi and was formed by his grandfather. Nearly as much of it as at present has been left has, I was informed, surreptitiously and gradually found its way to the shops of grocers and sweetmeat sellers. The collection is a very valuable one and the person into whose hands it has just now come means well by it, though he does not know Sanskrit. He intends making of it a public collection and endowing it with a fund for its proper maintenance.
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