Report on the search for Sanskrit manuscripts in Bombay Presidency during the years 1887-88,1888-89,1889-90 and 1890-91
- Type
- Search report
- Languages
- Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit
- Manuscripts
- 1,500
- Collections
- Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
- Online
- No online copy known
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0856
- Janert 1965 no. 273
- NCC 1984 list, “Bd”
Description (Biswas 1998)
Sub-title: A catalogue of manuscripts collected during the years 1887-1890. Description in tabular form of 1500 Sanskrit mss. (1167 collected from Gujarat and Rajputana and 233 from Maratha country). Arranged by subject. Notices of mss. (p. I-xci) No index. Besides mss., a set of copper plate inscriptions and an astronomical instrument made of brass are also listed. "This is my sixth and last report" - Preface.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0856, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.
Annotation (Janert 1965)
Kh - [1,] 1880/81. (1881): Report [No. 17 of 1881 to K. M. Chatfield, Dir. of Publ. Instr., Bombay, dated 2nd May 1881] by F. Kielhorn (XIV, 103 pp.). (The Report with remarks on an ancient system of numeration on palmleaf Mss.; detailed descriptions or descriptive notices of the 77 palm-leaf Mss... and the paper Mss. (Nos. 78-413) collected during 1880/ 81 (pp. l -79); Appendix: (The 289) Mss. collected in 1873/74 [a list in tabular form]. - The collections have been incorporated in the [Consolidated] Catalogue (Poona, Deccan College, 1888, - see: 276).) Bhk - [2,] 1881 /82. (1882): Report [No. 38 of 1882 to K. M. Chatfield, Dir. of Publ. Instr., Poona, dated: Poona, 1 st June 1882] by Ramkrishna Bhandarkar (39 pp. [and] p. 41. 4 ° [sic.] No title-page.) (The Report on pp. l-4, followed bya classified list in tabular form with short descriptions of 467 Mss. (Collection A of 1881/82 on pp. 5-38), a supplementary list (to the " Collection of 1880/81 " purchased by Kielhorn, cf.: 271, [Poona, Deccan College 1879/80-1881/82], List [2]) with the Ms. nos. 190-196 (on p. 39), and a supplementary Report (No. 39 of 1882 to K. M. Chatfield.., dated Poona 13th June 1882) of the search for Skt. Mss. in the Haidarabad Territory during 1881/82 (on p. 41 [without list]). - The collection has been incorporated in the [Consolidated]
From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 273, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.