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raneously, and each section will include a series of fasciculi 

 issued in succession and forming a whole. Supposing 200 

 pages can be printed yearly, which is quite reasonable, the 

 cost for 500 copies would be Rs. 600. 



(3) The Series of Bardic and Historical Texts. — This series 

 will include works large enough to be printed by themselves 

 and having both an historical and a literary interest. Each 

 work will make two parts or volumes : one containing the text 

 with philological introduction and critical notes, and the other, 

 the English translation, with historical introduction and ex- 

 planatory notes. The first part will be presented in the light 

 of a literary work, the second in the light of a historical 

 document. The number of copies will be 750 as a rule, but in 

 particular cases, and chiefly in the case of very popular poems 

 which can be sold very largely in Rajput ana, it will pay to 

 have some four or five hundred more copies made of the part 

 containing the text. Putting down 350 as the average number 

 of pages, inclusive of both text and translation as well as 

 introductions, that can be printed in the year, the cost at the 

 rate of Rs. 3-6-0 a page would be Rs. 1,181. 



To sum up, the figures in this department would be the 

 following : 



Rs. 



Cost of the Bulletin, 64 pages yearly . . 200 



Ccst of the Descriptive Catalogue, 200 pages 600 

 yearly. 



Cost of the Series of Bardic and Historical 1,181 

 Texts, 350 pages yearly. 



Total Rs. .. 1,981 



The khyatas or prose-chronicles, as remarked above, will 

 neither be edited nor translated, but first collected and classi- 

 fied into a Descriptive Catalogue and then utilized for a History 

 of the Jodhpur State. For the printing of this History, when 

 ready, there will be no need of asking for any special grant 

 from the Government, because the Jodhpur Darbar, who are 

 taking a very deep interest in the matter and have been 

 keeping— though without any practical results— an Historical 

 Office for about 30 years, are very likely to take the charge on 

 themselves. Vatas, when found to be interesting, can be 

 published in the Series. 



Putting together the charges in the three different depart- 

 ments, and adding Rs. 200 as a fund to meet contingencies, 

 the total amount necessary for the bringing into execution of 

 the present Scheme is the following : 



