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Literary heritage of the rulers of Amber and Jaipur: with an index to the register of manuscripts in the Pothikhana of Jaipur (1. Khasmohar collection)

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit
Collections
Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur
Sources
Attested in: Not independently checked

Series: Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Memorial Series; no.2.

Description (Biswas 1998)

Contains scholarly introduction to the subject and lists about 8000 Sanskrit and Bhasa (i.e. Apabhramsa, Hindi, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Marathi, and Bengali) mss. with extracts and notes on some important manuscripts. Title, author indices. The mss. are part of the following collections: (1) Khasmohar Collection, which actually formed the personal library of the Maharajas; (2) Pothikhana Collection; Pundarik collection, which was built by the family of Ratnakar Pundarik; Museum collection which were kept on display for long in the Museum earlier to 1959.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0432, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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