A catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the British Museum vol.II
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Prakrit, Sanskrit
- Manuscripts
- 763
- Collections
- British Library, India Office Collections
- Online
- No online copy known
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0556
Description (Biswas 1998)
Description of 763 Sanskrit and Prakrit mss. Bendall's Catalogue (1902) lists mss. acquired upto 1898. Bendall omitted Jain mss. acquired before 1898. This volume contains mss. acquired upto 1971. Includes: 1. Jaina mss. acquired in 1879 from Ratnavijaya Suri of Ahmedabad 2. Jaina mss. acquired by H. Jacobi in Rajasthan in 1873-74 and purchased by the British Museum in 1897.3. The Nevill collection of mss. from Sri lanka... acquired in 1904.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0556, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.