Sanskrit correspondence of Pandit Devakaka with Aurel Stein

The preparation of extracts was commenced in December 1889. This entire gamut of scholarly feat of Pandit Govind Koul and Pandit Sahajabhatta was transmitted to Lahore at regular intervals for Stein's reference.

Sanskrit correspondence of Pandit Sahajabhatta with Aurel Stein

The preparation of extract slips occupied the whole of year 1890 and first half of 1891 during which time Stein devoted whatever leisure he could spare for their examination and arrangement. For the following fifteen months Stein was obliged to make a pause in the catalogue work in order to be able to concentrate his labour along with Govind Koul, Mukandram and Sahajabhatta on Kalhana’s chronicle of Kashmir. As soon as the first volume of edition of Rajatarangini was published, work was resumed in connection with Jammu manuscripts. The work completed and published as “Catalogue of Six Thousand Sanskrit Manuscripts of Maharaja Ranbir Singh Raghunath Temple Library”, Jammu, in 1894, brought to the focus of Sanskrit students world over one of the great store-houses of Sanskrit literature in India. In Stein’s own words, “the catalogue work of manuscripts can be a credit to any public library of the West and the excellent order in which the collection of manuscripts is now kept.” The manuscripts embodied a total of 4934672 Slokas.( Regveda 106965, Yajurveda 216939, Samveda 38132, Athervaveda 12800, Vyakarna 437352, nyaya 459707, Vedanta359562, Yoga 20226, Dharma 438304, Nimamsa142273, Jyotisha 169172, Vaidya 357939,Purna Bharata 878864, Kavya 754063, Paddhiti 184321, and Tantra comprised of 158053 Slokas.)

Copy of the Catalogue presented by Aurel Stein to Pandit Nityanand   Nityanand Shastri Library Collection