A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Collections of the Asiatic Society, vol. XIV

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Reviewing the final volume of the Asiatic Society’s Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts, this article describes the scope and features of the publication. The volume, one of the smallest in the series, contains 63 pages and catalogues 89 manuscriptsfile:///home/oai/share/split_pdfs/article_10.pdf#:~:text=The%20volume%20appears%20to%20be,The%20smallness%20of%20the%20size. It covers a wide range of subjects, including Kamaśāstra, Vastu‑śāstra, Saṅgīta‑śāstra, Yuddha‑śāstra, Śyainika‑śāstra, Caturanga‑śāstra, Ratna‑śāstra and Caurya‑śāstrafile:///home/oai/share/split_pdfs/article_10.pdf#:~:text=cripts%20of%20works%20on%20Kamafistra%2C,aurya%E2%80%94s%27a%3B%27tra. The reviewer notes that the editors avoided repetition by grouping information under the first entry of each work and listing only distinctive features for subsequent manuscriptsfile:///home/oai/share/split_pdfs/article_10.pdf#:~:text=of%20every%20manuscript%20of%20%E0%AB%A9,the%20special%20features%20of%20%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F. An introduction surveys the owners, copyists and significant manuscripts and provides a thematic overviewfile:///home/oai/share/split_pdfs/article_10.pdf#:~:text=collection%20of%20manuscripts%20described%20in,%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9F%20contents%20of%20the%20mss. The reviewer praises the inclusion of indices of authors and works and commends the volume’s usefulness for scholars. He observes that three more volumes remain to be published, but the series is nearing completionfile:///home/oai/share/split_pdfs/article_10.pdf#:~:text=padhyaya%20H,The%20present%20volume%20describes%20manus.