A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji’s Sarasvati Mahal Library Tanjore

When the last of them died the whole property including the above collection formed the subject of litigation among the several claimants. [...] As the funds at the disposal of the Library were not adequate to undertake the printing and publishing of a descripive catalogue of all the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library the Administrative Committee of the Library approached the Goverment of Madras year after year with the request for a special grant towards the same. [...] The Government of Madras have placed the necessary funds at the disposal of the Committeee to continue the work already undertaken for a further period of three years. [...] He is the founder of the Advaita school of philosophy and his Brahmasiltrabhisya is the basic work of the school. [...] The last of the above is one of the very early works on Vedanta the author being the disciple of Sureivara the direct disciple of aatikara and is commented upon by Nrsirnhakamin in his Tattvabodhini (No.