1847.] 



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But my modern copy is grounded on numerous ancient ones, at least 

 eight copies having been procured of some parts and twelve copies 

 of others, thus my collated copy is at least equivalent to eight com- 

 plete ancient manuscripts. 



13. Sometimes Sanscrit books are found in the same volume with a 

 Telugu poem. Tn such cases the volume is only numbered as one, 

 and is placed under one list, in the other list there is a reference to it, 

 as, vide other catalogue. 



14. Some books have two titles, the whole details are therefore 

 given under one name to which there is a reference under the other 

 (instances are given). 



15. It is the custom in India to call the various portions, books, or 

 cantos of a work by separate titles, thus the " Yuddha Canda" i. e. 

 " The Battle," is in truth " the sixth book of the Ramayanam" as it 

 would be called in Europe. This is inexpedient ; accordingly all 

 such subordinate names are omitted in the alphabetical catalogue : 

 but will be found at full in the numerical arrangement. 



16. It is also the mode to prefix a title (as Holy Bible,) for the one 

 name Bible. Thus " Sri" is prefixed to the names Bhagavatum and 

 Ramayanam ; this is not expedient and I have not adopted it in the 

 alphabetical arrangement, I have placed these names under their res- 

 pective initials not under S. 



17. Yet some portions are very generally classed as separate 

 books, and accordingly I have allowed the celebrated Bhagavat Gita 

 Avitli its various commentaries to stand as one work instead of class- 

 ing it under the Maha Bharatum to which it originally belonged. 

 Thus also the Kasi Khandum is placed under K. instead of being in- 

 cluded in the "Scanda Purana" under S. 



It is difficult to state the exact number of books in the Library 

 in round numbers ; it may be stated, that there are about 900 separate 

 ancient volumes of Sanscrit, and about 360 newly written volumes. 

 Some works extend to ten volumes some to twenty. Among the 

 " rest there is a complete copy of the Vedas, and of seventeen Puranas 

 with fragments of the 18th called Bhavishya. The total of separate 

 items is about 4,000.^' 



It is yet more hard to classify the books rigidly according to titles. 



* This includes only my private collection : which alter my return to India ^vas some- 

 what increased. 



