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research. It was first meant for insertion in the " Bulletin " 

 but since, owing to the present impossibility of starting the 

 burvey on an official and permanent footing" the "Bulletin" 

 now has hardly any reason to come into existence, it might 

 like the Vacanika, form a volume in the '« Series of Bardic and 

 Historical Texts." Incidentally, it may be observed, that as 

 there are some grammatical and literary works, which are 

 directly or indirectly connected with the bardic literature of 

 Rajputana, though they cannot be described as bardic accord- 

 ing to the strict meaning of the term, it is advisable that they 

 should also be published in the aforesaid "Series." In this 

 regard, it seems to me that if the " Series " was called " Bib- 



liotheca Rajasthanica," the appellation would be a very appro- 

 priate one. J ** 



Some other materials, which had been prepared for the 

 "Bulletin," will be found given as an appendix to the present 

 Report. The monograph on Phalodhi was but one of six, the 

 other five comprising similar accounts of Pohakarana, Sojhata, 

 Sivano, Merato and Jetarana. These have remained incom- 



plete as visits to the places with the object of collecting 

 inscriptions, etc., were first postponed till more funds would be 

 granted, and afterwards found impracticable. But where I 

 have been wronged the most, is in the Chronicles, which I had 

 begun to examine with a view to compile a History of Jcdhpur. 

 Here all my pains have been in vain, except for a portion of a 

 Descriptive Catalogue, which is ready for the press and will be 

 found of use in the compilation of the History of Bikaner and, 

 eventually, the minor Rathora States. It is a description and 

 classification of the historical information contained in sixteen 

 huge volumes, almost all forming part of two rich private col- 

 lections at Jodhpur. The work was interrupted when, in 

 consequence of the Darbar's departing from its friendly atti- 

 tude, people became afraid of lending me their books. 



In the searching department of the work, I was a little 

 better off, for in spite of the existence of the same difficulties a< 

 in the editing, namely want of help and scarcity of funds, I was 

 able to employ men from the 1st of January to the end of 

 October uninterruptedly. As proposed in my Scheme, I started 

 with two officers in this department: a travelling man and a 

 copyist, and this without taking into account the second assist- 

 ant, Carana Kisora Dana, whose services were also occasionally 

 utilized for the search till he was allowed to remain with me. 

 The appointment of Bhata Nanu Rama for a travelling man 



man 



unreliable and unfit for the search of manuscripts. He was 

 dismissed at the end of January and another employed in his 

 place, his name Candra Bhana, a Puskarana brahman who was 

 a clerk in the Tawarikh Mehkma and had been recommended 

 »y the first assistant Pandit Rama Karna. But he also proved 



