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Report of the Sub- Committee 



[No. 33, 



The Sanscrit portion contains two complete copies (besides many 

 detached portions) of the Vedas, one on pahn leaves in the Grantham 

 character, the other on English paper in the Telugu character. 



A considerable number of volumes principally from Mr. Brown's 

 collection, are written on English paper and bound as English books, 

 some of which are in Sanscrit, some in the Telugu, and others in the 

 Canarese languages. 



To make a catalogue raisonne of these numerous works, is an 

 undertaking that far exceeds the unaided means of this Society. The 

 persons in charge of the collection are mere custodians who are able 

 to do little more than read the titles of the works. Indeed to frame 

 any thing like a catalogue raisonne that would prove suitable to the 

 European reader is a task beyond the powers of any Native. The 

 members of the Sub-Committee would therefore have had them- 

 selves to undertake the labour of examining and abstracting the con- 

 tents of each MS. to enable them to furnish such a list as the Go- 

 vernment desire, and this it must be evident requires more time and 

 exertion than they could possibly afford for the purpose. As a first 

 istep however to such an object they directed the Librarians to pre- 

 pare a new list of the works according to their different subjects, of 

 which a programme was furnished for their guidance, but after much 

 delay and raising many difficulties they have totally failed. An al- 

 phabetical list of his own collection was framed many years ago by 

 Mr. Brown, and under his directions it had been extended to the 

 other collections, not however in such a manner as to show the pro- 

 portion belonging to each, and as there are many duplicates and fre- 

 quently several copies of the same work in the same collection, this 

 document necessarily affords but an imperfect idea of the whole. 

 Another statement is now in preparation distinguishing the relative 

 contents of each collection, which will show not only the number of 

 duplicate works in the same collection, but likewise the number of 

 copies in all the collections. 



In the catalogue prepared by Mr. Brown the whole collection is 

 arranged alphabetically and numerically with Indexes framed for 

 the most part in the language in which the books are written. 

 These lists may merit translation into English, and in their present 

 state are probably sufficient to serve the purposes of such native 

 scholars as may require the books. 



An abstract of these catalogues will be found in the enclosure 



