1878.] 



Conservrdion of Sanskrit Literature. 



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(2.) " To institute searches for manuscripts, and to this end to pre- 

 " pare lists of desirable codices, to distribute these lists among scholars and 

 " other persons willing to assist in the search, with a request that they will 

 " report their discoveries to such officer as may from time to time be ap- 

 *' pointed by the Government of India, and to depute competent scholars on 

 " tours through the several Presidencies and Provinces to examine tha 

 " manuscripts reported upon, to seek new manuscripts, to purchase manu- 

 *' scripts procurable at reasonable rates, and to have copies made of such 

 " manuscripts as are unique or otherwise desirable, but which the possessors 

 " refuse to part with ;" and 



(3.) " to grant to the Asiatic Society of Bengal an additional allow- 

 *' ance for the publication of Sanscrit works hitherto unprinted." 



The statement given in the margin shews the financial result of 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the scheme, i. e., how the 



Rs. 24,000 sanctioned as the 

 annual expense for carrying 

 it out are distributed. 



This Resolution was com- 

 municated to the several Lo- 

 cal Governments and Admi- 

 nistrations with instructions 

 as to how to carry out the 

 scheme. 



The instructions were that 

 all procurable unprinted lists 

 of Sanscrit manuscripts in 

 the Native libraries situate 

 within the territories under 

 the respective Local Govern- 

 ments and Administrations 

 should be printed uniformly 

 in octavo in the Nagri cha- 

 racter and under the super- 

 intendence of a competent 

 editor, such as Babu Rajen- 

 dralala Mitra in Bengal, Mr. 

 Burnell in Madras, and Dr. 

 Biihler in Bombay. 



Competent scholars should, 

 it was said, be sent annually 

 on tours to examine the manuscripts named in the Native catalogues so print- 

 ed, to seek new manuscripts, to explain to Native scholars at the different 



Bengal, , 



Bombay, 



Madras and Mysore, . 

 North-Western Pro 



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Oudh, 



Central Provinces, . . . , 

 Eajputana, , 



Printing Native cata 

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 manuscripts, . 



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 Asiatic Society, 



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