A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c11.7

c11.7

All the major repositories of Kerala manuscripts have been examined, either directly or through their catalogues of manuscripts, for the work on this Bibliography. The Kerala University Oriental Research Institute and Mss. Library, which, now, houses all the Trivandrum collections, is by far the largest of these repositories and had been most useful in the present work. In this Bibliography, references to the manuscripts germane to the University Collection¹ are given merely by their Ms. numbers, with no other indication. The numbers of the manuscripts belonging to the erstwhile Curator’s Office Collection² are prefixed with ‘C’, those of the Curator’s Office (Malayalam) Collection,³ with ‘CM’, the Loan Collection with ‘L’, the Maharaja’s Palace Collection,⁴ with ‘P’, the Palace Malayalam Collection,⁵ with ‘PM’, Transcripts Section with ‘T’ and Transcripts (Malayalam) Section, with ‘TM’. Of the other collections, that of the Adyar Library and Research Centre⁶ is indicated by ‘Ad’, the Oriental Institute, Baroda,⁷ by ‘Baroda’, the Government Or. Mss. Library, Madras,¹ by ‘Mad.’, S.V. Oriental Institute, Tirupati,² by ‘Tir.’, the India Office Library, London,³ by ‘IO’ and the Whish Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society, London,⁴ by ‘Whish’. Other public and private collections have been indicated by their full names. The *Catalogus Catalogorum of Sanskrit works and authors (CC)* by T. Aufrecht (Leipzig, 3 vols., 1891, 1895, 1903; Rep., Wiesbaden, 1962) and the *New Catalogus Catalogorum (NCC)*, (Madras University, 1949 ff.) are also referred to when necessary.