Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The subjoined catalogue describes a collection comprising 368 separate texts mainly in Sanskrit, which were collected by Dr. M. A. Stein and acquired at his expense chiefly at Śrīnagar during his visits to Kashmir between 1888 and 1905. Apart from texts needed by Dr. Stein for his labours, during 1888–99, on his critical edition and annotated translation of Kalhana's Rājataraṅgiṇī, numerous MSS. were purchased by him either to assist the work of fellow-scholars in Europe or on account of their philological or palæographical interest.
page 587 note 1 Selections from his collection of Sanskrit MSS. were handed over by Dr. Stein in 1894–5 to the late Professors Buhler and Roth for the Vienna Imperial Library and the Tübingen University Library respectively. A smaller selection subsequently passed, through M. Emile Senart, Membre de l'lnstitut, to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
page 588 note 1 See regarding this eminent Kashmir scholar (died 1899), Stein, Rājataraṅgiṇī edition, p. xvii; Translation, vol. i, p. xxii.
page 588 note 2 Compare for Paṇḍit Sahajabhaṭṭa's scholarly experience and valuable assistance, Stein, , Catalogue of Jammu Sanskrit MSS., p. xiGoogle Scholar. This highly deserving scholar died in November, 1911.
page 589 note 1 The following abbreviations are used in the Catalogue: Śār. = Śāradā; Dev. = Devanāgarī; Rāj. = Rājānaka; Mā° = Māhātmya; Saṁ° = Saṁhitāyām. The size of the MSS. is given in inches.