104 



Appendix. 



[No. S3, 



To estimate in money the value of objects, wliich have no certain 

 marketable prices, but of which the cost fluctuates with the labour of 

 transcription, the wants and fancies of purchasers, actuated some- 

 times by religious zeal, sometimes by desire of amusement, sometimes 

 by curiosity, is almost impossible. Mr. Brown estimates the actual 

 outlay made by him on his own collection at above 30,000 Rupees. 

 The Committee consider this to be a fair and moderate valuation, and 

 the remaining volumes may be taken at a somewhat smaller sum. 

 On the whole they consider that they are within the mark in stating 

 the entire collection to be worth about 50,000 Rupees. It must also 

 be borne in mind that the waning encouragement of royal and noble 

 patrons of literature in the present state of India, has tended to lessen 

 the supply of MS. copies of vernacular compositions and that they 

 may be expected to become scarcer and scarcer every day. This 

 enhances the value of the less known works and renders their pre- 

 servation a matter of the greater interest and importance. 



APPENDIX No. I. 



An Abstracted List from the Telugu Lists of the Oriental Manu- 

 scripts contained in the several Collections at the College. 



BROWN'S COLLECTION PAPER. 



Sanscrit Works, Telugu Character. 



Vedas. From No. 1 to 24. 



130. — Unbound Sections, except 

 Numbers bound. 



•om No. 1 to 24 ") 



„ „ 1 to 59.... (No. 

 „ „ 1 to 33. ... f 2 

 „ „ 1 to 14.... 3 



>» 



Mantras. From No. 1 to 137.. Bound, contains 720 Mantras, works 



and Mantras. 

 Vedanta. From No. 441 to 446..No. 6.— Bound. 



Puranas. From No. 351 to 429. .No. 79. — Bound, each Volume contain- 

 ing a single work or more. 



Skanda Purana. From No. 618 



to 633.. No. 16.— Bound. 

 Kavya, Nataka, ") From No. 451 



Alankaras. J to 538.. No. 88 — Bound. 

 Vyakarana, Ch'han- ) From No. 600 



da, Nighantu. j to 617. .No. 18.— Bound. 



Telugu Works. Telugu Character. 



Kavya, Nataka, ") -r, -kt i ^ 



AlanklraPurana,?-^^J?^.N«-l*% , , . , 

 Vaidya Works. S Bound, contam 700 works. 



Lists and Indexes. From No. 401 



to 419. ......No. 19.— Bound. 



