Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [65 of 69]
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65. The only thing that, it seems to me, Government can at present do directly would be to have lists made of the most important of the collections and published for the information of scholars throughout the world. That many of the collections I have examined and others I have not examined in Jesalmir, Jhalwar, Ujjain and Udaipur for instance, are of sufficient importance to deserve being made widely known I feel no doubt about. I have above mentioned some of the manuscripts that appeared to me to be particularly worth noticing for some reason or other. But besides these, there are to be found at all the places many very old manuscripts of works relating to almost all subjects which would have high value in the eyes of scholars. There will, moreover, be many more libraries of manuscripts coming to light with more time for preparatory work. Towards the end of December, the Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General, Central India, wrote to me to say that I was deputed for the work of the preliminary search rather suddenly, and the authorities there hardly received sufficient notice to enable them to assist me effectively, and that on the occasion of my next tour, if I should go to Central India later, Captain Luard expected that he might be able to do something to persuade the Jains and others who have ancient manuscripts to come forward and assist me in my search.
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