Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [38 of 69]
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38. As in other places there were here too three or four collections which I could not see on account of the owners or the keepers being just then absent from Jaipur. But there were some others, the owners of which, I was given to understand, would not be easily prevailed upon to let me or anyone else see their manuscripts. This sort of prejudice seems to be stronger in Jaipur than elsewhere. And I was informed that it was not an uncommon practice at this place to make partial lists of the manuscripts in one's possession and represent them as complete lists and similarly to show but the commonest of the manuscripts and represent them as being all. Dr. Bühler also has noticed this practice in the report I have above quoted from, though not in connection with Jaipur. One of the Śāstrīs at Gwalior incidentally complained to me, while I was examining his manuscripts, that another Śāstrī, an acquaintance of his, would not allow him to make a copy for himself of a certain work in the latter’s possession.
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