98 A. F. R. Hoernle — Epigraphical Note on Palm-leaf^ etc, [No. 2, 
shown in the subjoined Tables I and II, with 87 and’43 Nos. respectively. 
Table I contains manuscripts, of which the date is known, while 
Table II contains manuscripts of conjectural dates. The lists are not 
selected ones in any other sense than that I have included in it 
none but such manuscripts as I have actually seen and examined 
myself, and thus determined the palm to which their leaves belong. 
Those manuscripts (27 out of 130) of which I have seen leaves 
only in photographic facsimile are marked with an asterisk. The 
manuscripts marked “ Kielhorn ” and “ Bhandarkar ” are preserved in 
the Deccan College in Poona. The opportunity of inspecting them I 
owe to the kindness of Mr. Giles, Director of Public Instruction in 
Bombay, and Professor Abaji Kathavate of the Deccan College, who 
transmitted specimen leaves to me. The numbers refer to the Reports 
on the Search of Sanskrit MSS. in the Bombay Presidency for 1880-81 
and 1887-91. The Tanjore manuscripts, which are referred to by their 
numbers in Burnell’s Classified Catalogue, were transmitted to me by 
Mr. Geo. T. Oliver, the Receiver and Manager of the Tanjore Palace 
Estate; so were those, marked “ in private hands,” by Maulvi 
Muhammad Abdullah, an officer of the Darbhangah Raj. To both these 
gentlemen I wish here to express my sincere thanks. Nearly the whole 
of the remainder of the list are manuscripts preserved in Calcutta in 
the collections of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Government of 
India. They are referred to as “ Mitra,” “ Ind. Govt.” and “ Notices.” 
These, of course, I had no difficulty in inspecting. My friends, Maha- 
mahopadhyaya Pandit Kara Prasad Shastri, and Muni Hans Vijay-ji, 
the head of one of the Jain pakhas, were also kind enough to let me 
see a few palm-leaf manuscripts in their possession. I may add that 
the measurements of all the manuscripts in the two lists have been made 
or verified by myself. 
