Thanks for the details, Mrinal. I remember you explained to me the history of these different catalogues. I put all this information on the Pandit Project. 

I also checked with Prof. Graheli who referred to this catalogue in one of his articles. He told me that perhaps there is a scan of this catalogue in Vienna. 

I know you are busy and I don't want you to scan the entire catalogue for me. But if anyone can do it as paid work I can pay for it. For the time being if you could send me only the reference to the text Varṇaśikṣāsaṅkṣepa by Jagaddhara, I'd be grateful. 

Regards,
Deepro

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 6:49 AM Mrinal Kaul <mrinalkaul81@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Deepro,

Sorry for you still have not been able to manage the scan of this hand-list. I will see if someone can scan it. This 1989 hand-list was partly based on the information available in the accession register in the Oriental Research Library in Srinagar. Those days, I used to hear from Pandit Dinanath Yacch, they used to sell copies of this cyclostyled version. No 2 in your list, prepared by Prof Deambi, was a revised version of No. 1 and was printed and the copies are still available from the Centre of Central Asian Studies in the University of Kashmir (Hazratbal Campus). Unfortunately, Prof Deambi did not prepare the second volume of this hand-list. A separate list of the Persian and Arabic Mss in the same collection was also prepared and printed by the same centre. No 3 in your list is a randomised version of the No 1 and No 2 and the information has been carelessly put together by the staff of the Research Department and printed as a catalogue. No 4 is sometimes even more misleading. No 5 is, in fact, a PDF prepared by me taking all the information about this collection from IGNCA. I also made a separate PDF of the Persian and Arabic Mss using the information provided by IGNCA. Even though this list contains the most pragmatic details of the scanned Mss, the Ms IDs given by them are not always unique giving rise to a number of ambiguities. Best wishes.

Mrinal 
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On 20-Mar-2024, at 8:04 AM, Deepro Chakraborty via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Does anyone have a copy of the following catalogue:

1989. A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts. Srinagar: The Research and Publication Department, Jammu and Kashmir Government. Based on a draft prepared by Srikantha Kaul and Dinanath Yach. 

This is a hand-typed and cyclostyled list of the Mss available in the library prepared by Pt Dinanath Yacch and Pt Srikanth Kaul (but their names were not mentioned there). There are four other catalogues of the Sanskrit manuscripts of Oriental Research Library, Srinagar. But all of them are originally based on this catalogue. The other ones are as follows:  
(2) Deambi's catalogue (only vol. 1 was published)
(3) A printed catalogue of the institution 
(4) A catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts available on the website of the institution 
(5) A catalogue prepared by IGNCA.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could share the 1989 catalogue with me. 

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University of Alberta

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Department of History, Classics, and Religion
University of Alberta

The University of Alberta acknowledges that we are located on ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) Treaty 6 territory, and respects the history, languages, and cultures of the First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our institution.