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to the 11th century A.D., and are the precursors of the Bengal 
and Maithil Schools of Navya Nyaya. 
movement for the conservation of Sanskrit manuscripts 
was inaugurated by the Government of Lord Lawrence in 1868 
and the fund sanctioned by the Government of India was 
t the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in whose hands the work is 
with fresh acquisitions and fresh publications. In Bombay, 
only one volume of the Descriptive Catalogue has been pub- 
lished. But they are going on with acquisitions. Benares issues 
every year a list, more or less descriptive, of their new acquisi- 
tions. But no attempt has yet been made to compile a Des- 
criptive Catalogue of the whole collection. There is some 
activity intheC.P. Butitis neither systematic nor continuous. 
It is the desire of all concerned that all collections of manu- 
scripts either in private or in public hands should have a Des- 
criptive Catalogue. In Europe, many well-known collections 
have got their catalogues. But, although the large collection 
presented by Sir Chandra Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana to 
the Bodlein Library, Oxford, has been counted and classified, 
no descriptive catalogue has yet been published. The small 
but important collection at the Max Muller memorial has not 
got yet a catalogue raisonné. 
The large collection of wonderful manuscripts of all ages 
in the Durbar Library, Nepal, has been partially described in 
two volumes of my catalogue of Palm-leaf and selected Paper 
manuscripts in that Library. Bikaner has a collection of 6,000 
manuscripts. But the collection is poorly represented in Raja 
this collection in 1878. But since then it has neither been ex- 
yield important results. 
