A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library

F. Otto Schrader

ISBN 10: 1397192011 / ISBN 13: 9781397192011

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titolo: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1397192011
• ISBN 13: 9781397192011
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library (Theosophical Society), Vol. 1: Upanisads

Tm: adyar library Opens the Descriptive Catalogue of its Sanskrit mss. With the volume on Upanisad literature, because this volume is wanted at present as the necessary basis of a work now under preparation, viz., a critical edition and translation of the more important of the se-called Minor Upanisads.

The two largest collections of Upanisad mss. Of which catalogues have been published are, in the West, that of the India Office in London with 356 numbers (copies) and 144 works (titles), and, in India, the collection of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras, with 607 numbers and 183 works.

The collection described in this volume comprises 1322 numbers distributed among 365) works, and of the latter the following have not been described before or not been properly described, those marked with an asterisk appearing herewith for the first time (the numbers in brackets after the names refer to the pages of the present work)

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