Some decades ago, a colleague told me that he wondered about the many birds in a South Indian manuscript library — until he noticed that they were eating the bookworms...

Similarly, in our 40 decades long Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project (now at: https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html), tired of specifying damages by hand, I finally printed on our catalog cards:

On Dec 17, 2019, at 9:33 PM, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I once read somewhere words to the effect that the most ardent consumer of Sanskrit manuscripts was His Majesty the Bookworm. Does this ring a bell? Can anyone help me locate a reference for this?

Please reply off-list.

Thanks in advance,

McComas

McComas Taylor
Associate Professor
Reader in Sanskrit
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
WSC Website| McC Website

Tel: +61 2 6125 3179

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