A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Vrindaban Research Institute (Part-6)

Introduction Braja region has been the cradle of religious, theological and cultural opulence because this area has, eventually, been the field of outstanding academic endeavour by so many scholarly saints from all-round India, particularly during post medieval period. Undoubtedly the cause of cause was that this place was the platform of delicate, divine dalliance of deity of love i.e. Lord Krsna; the creator, protector and propagator of Braja Culture or Indian Culture on the whole. We owe a great deal to these scholars, saints, who conveyed the cultural heritage to the society in the form of literature and art.

The Vrindaban Research Institute, since its very inception in 1968 has been the medium of protection and propagation of Braja Culture. It has acquired about 30000+Manuscripts of Sanskrit, Hindi, Bangali, Punjabi, Gujrati, Orea and Persian scripts; and is a host of archival material and important historical documents. Experiencing the need of preservation and protection of cultural material of Braja, the institute has already had an accessory building erected very recently, still to be finished and furnished by the financial aid of Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

The Institute has already published five parts of the Catalogue of Sanskrit Manu- scripts, in the year 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985 and 1991 respectively; within this period two Catalogues of Hindi Manuscripts one of Bengali manuscripts and one of Punjabi Mss. and one Catalogue of Manuscripts microfilmed in V.R.I. have already been published. The Manuscript of the next Catalogue of Mss microfilmed is ready for press.

It bestows upon us a fair solace to present the VI part of A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in V.R.I. before the scholars after a fair long gap due to different fair causes; the main has been the unavailability of a chief Cataloguer. It is an art of expressing substantially maximum in minimum words. The VI part of Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts conforms to the statutory layout adopted in the V part. To the 16830 entries of the manuscripts listed in parts I-V, 3008 more entries have been added. And thus the serial no. has come upto 19838.

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