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2. The modern copies are those prepared under Mr. Brown's di- 

 rections in the shape of English volumes properly bound. All the 

 rest whether on paper or on palm leaves are described as ancient. 



3. Some volumes contain four, five or ten different books, but 

 each volume is considered only as one item. Thus each of the five 

 or ten books bear the same number. 



4. Some of the ancient copies are marked A that is, (asamagranl,) 

 incomplete. 



5. There arc thus four catalogues for the four classes each of 

 which is arranged numerically. It was found difficult to place each 

 branch of learning in a separate catalogue, but this has been done 

 as far as was practicable and afterwards one consecutive numeration 

 was applied to all. Still the four classes remained separate. 



6. And where one class terminated, a few numbers have been left 

 unoccupied for such books as might be hereafter met with appertain- 

 ing to this class. 



7. Some ancient books particularly those written at Benares, are 

 on loose leaves of paper tied up in cloths which are called Dafters. 

 These were at first classed separate from the rest, and have not yet 

 been all brought under the general class being marked *' Dafter 

 Ko. 2, &c." And they are numbered under the ancient series. 



8. After the four lists were completed two alphabetical lists were 

 prepared one to each language. 



9. Each of the alphabetical catalogues has two columns, the first 

 giving the ancient articles, the second the new ones. For instance 

 Yasu Charitra, we find in the first column Nos. 15, 63, M^hich denote 

 two books in the antique (or native) form, and in the second column 

 number 85 denotes that there is also a copy written in the European 

 form, that is in a bound volume. 



10. But it must not be imagined that the new copies are mere 

 transcripts of the old ones, on the contrary most of the new copies 



" were made from books lent to me and which are not now in the 

 Library. 



11. Further: very few of the ancient manuscripts are complete 

 while an incomplete book rarely occurs among the new copies and 

 only among unimportant works, for the new copies were each ground- 

 ed on five or six copies lent me. 



12. It is impossible to procure one uniform ancient copy of tlic 

 Telugu Mahabharatta which is found only in separate volumes. 



