Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [67 of 69]
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67. A word now in explanation of the delay in sending in this report. Prom the various dates I have given above it will be seen that the required information as regards the existence and accessibility of manuscripts in Rajputana came crowding in about the middle and end of December and the beginning of January. To curtail my tour in Rajputana, therefore, within as short a time as possible I had to hurry on from place to place at what an eminent scholar, who knew of my movements, called post haste. In order that not a single day more than was absolutely necessary might have to be given to my tour I had to subject myself — and did so willingly — to great physical discomforts, hardships and privations against the advice and protests of the friends I made at the various places. I should not have referred to these but for the fact that they show that it was impossible for me during the tour in Rajputana to make my notes of the results of my examination of manuscripts in any but the most cursory fashion. Even Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum, the most indispensible book of reference for Brahmanical literature, I found it impossible on several occasions to refer to in the course of my examination. Much less could I refer to any other book I carried with me and of course not at all to any that was not with me on my tour. Under the circumstances the report required a great deal of continuous steady work after the tour was finished. But on resuming my lecture work at the College at the end of January, I thought it right to devote to it four more hours a week than usual in order to make up for the lost month. Not much time was consequently left me to devote to this report, and I had besides on two successive days in the week to lecture for four hours continuously without a break, and I think that even the physical exertion, not to speak of the mental, was a little too much. I had also to wait for a few days for some additional information I expected to get and to be able to incorporate in this report, some of which, as that from Rewah, Rutlam and Jhalwar, I have got and used.
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