Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [39 of 69]
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39. Here I examined fourteen or fifteen collections, four of them being Jaina, and three or four of the others being pretty big. Four or five of these were well arranged and properly looked after. One of them consisted mostly of works belonging to Rāmānuja's system. One of the bigger libraries, I am sorry, I could not examine as thoroughly as I should have wished, the list as usual being altogether useless. The owner was rendered blind and deaf at the age of about thirty-five and his son, who would have helped me, was out of Jaipur. The old man, therefore, had to be communicated with by letters being shaped with a finger on the palm of his hand and he then merely by his sense of touch and because he knew the arrangement picked out the bundle and took out the manuscript required. The process was necessarily a long one and I could examine but a very small fraction of the whole number I wished to examine.
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