XXXil Annual Report. [February, 1912. 
But in majority of instances the manuscripts have to be 
read over and a full description written. The Jaina manu- 
scripts specially require hard work. The ritualistic works 
based on the Vedas are particularly difficult. The Pauranic 
manuscripts have often to be described in full. New poems, 
new works on Philosophy and new works on Hindu Law and 
two years in spite of the various interruptions to which the 
cataloguist Maham@hopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, C.ILE., 
his presence in distant parts of India. His assistants, Pandit 
Agutos Tarkatirtha and Pandit Nani Gopal Banerjee, are 
doing their best to get through the work in as few years as 
possible. 
The Sastri publicly acknowledges the assistance he has 
derived from Pandit Nani Gopal in examining the Sanskrit 
manuscripts at the Jodhpur Pustak Prakas Library, at the 
Bikanir Fort library and at the Libraries of various Jaina 
Bhandars in the cities of Bikanir and Jodhpur. 
The Bikanir collection of Sanskrit manuscripts had its 
nucleus in a loot of Adony in Gautur Sircar by Anip Singh, 
Raja of Bikanir, who was a general in Aurangzeb’s army which 
fought against the Kutab Shahis of Golkonda. Anip Singh 
himself was a learned man, posed and commented on 
many works of Smrti and Tantra, and collected Sanskrit manu- 
scripts from various quarters. Since then there have been 
many additions to the library from time to time, till it now 
amounts to 6,000 manuscripts. There is a nominal catalogue 
from which any manuscript may be easily found. The library 
is kept in a spacious hall, and every care is taken of the 
manuscripts. The librarian is a man of learning, and a lover 
of books. 
Through the good offices of Maharaja Bhairo Singh, the 
Senior Member of the Bikanir Council, the Sastri was given every 
facility to examine the large and interesting collection which 
is rich in Vedic and Smrti works. One Nyaya work deserves 
special mention. This is Manikantha, treatise on Vyapti, called 
in Bengal Vyagra, whose definition of Vyapti, Gangesa takes a 
