XXVili Annual Report. {February, 1912. 
abundance were offered for sale, very few additions were made, 
owing to the want of funds; a large sum aving been contri- 
buted from the A. and P. Fund towards the purchase of the 
Tibetan Tangur. 
During the year under review, Moulavi Hafiz Nazir Ahmad 
and Moulavi Qasim Hasir, the Travelling Moulavis for the 
Search of Arabic and Persian MSS. on behalf of the Govern- 
ment of India, were engaged in the compilation of a Hand List 
of all the MSS. (Arabic and Persian) acquired by them during 
the past years. 
Search for Manuscripts of Bardic Chronicles. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, C.I.E., was on 
tour in Rajputana for the months of September and October 
1911 for the collection of manuscripts of Bardic Chronicles. 
The Bardic Committee at Jodhpur began work from June 
1910. The Committee was presided over by Rao Bahadur 
Sukdev Prasad,C.J.E. It had for its Vice-President Mahamaho- 
padhyaya Kaviraja Murardafiji, acknowledged to be the best 
authority on the Bardic lore of Rajputana. Purohit KeSari 
Singhji, Babu Lachmandasji, Munsi Devi Prasadji, Bansur 
Mahadanji and Barhatt Jorawardaiiji were the other members 
of the Committee. 
The Committee appointed Pandit Ramakaran as their 
Secretary. Pandit Ramkaran is a good Sanskrit scholar, a good 
historian whose papers are to be found in the ‘‘ Indian Antiquary ” 
and in the “‘ Epigraphia Indica,” and who helped Professor Kiel- 
horn greatly in the decipherment of the Rajputana inscriptions. 
He is doing the work with zeal and earnestness. Four Travelling 
Pandits are employed to collect materials. They are all men 
of note. They are Barhat Jaitdan, Barhat Kisoredan, Caran 
Jagatdan and Bhat Nanu Ram, a descendant of the great poet 
Cand, the author of Prthvirajraso of historic fame. Two 
scribes were employed at the already existing Historical Duftar 
of Jodhpur, which has done much valuable work. These were 
Pandit VisveSvar Nath and Pandit Balakrsna. The Travelling 
Pandits bring their notes on Bardic Collections and their 
collections of Bardic songs from villages, and these are copied 
in legible Devanagari by the scribes. 
Pandit Ramkaran spent much time in elucidating these 
songs with historical and philological notes. But he has been 
and songs are undertaken. He has been requested, for the 
present, to push on the collection, and to get as many rare 
Songs as possible from outlying villages. There will be time 
