Lanterna Rally

Author: British Museum

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780331771688

Excerpt from Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit Books in the British Museum: Acquired During the Years 1876-92 First, as to the scope of the work. The term Prakrit has been added to the title of the present volume. Because the publications in Prakrit have very considerably increased since the date of Dr. Haas's Catalogue. This has been (as may be seen from our Select Subject Index) mainly owing to the literary activity of the Svetambara Jain sect. I may here note that Jain works are catalogued under the Sanskrit titles authorized by tradition, though the' corresponding Prakrit forms are also given in the Index of Titles. The subject-index just referred to forms a second new feature of the present work, and is similar to those which have been found useful in the catalogues of several Indian vernaculars. In view of the comparatively greater number of handbooks available for students of Sanskrit, no attempt has been made to render this Index exhaustive; but it is hoped that it will prove useful to students, as well as to the compilers of ehreste mathies and other educational works. Referring to Dr. Haas's remarks on the scope of his Catalogue (p. It may be here stated that an endeavour has now been made to supply references to texts published in the Journals of learned societies, which were there omitted. A complete list of the translations of the Bible into Sanskrit and Pali has also been added. In order to explain the mode of transcription, as well as to afford a ready means of reference for the very numerous alphabets used in printing Sanskrit works, a table of transliteration has been added. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.