Just back from a Survey Tour of Mysore and got to photograph random manuscripts at 3 Places.

Residence of Professor Filliozat, Yadavgiri, Mysore :
Professor had 3 Sharada Manuscripts he had acquired in his sole trip to Srinagar in the 70s, besides many Palm Leaf Bundles.
Professor told me that there was a Old Publisher of Devanagari Texts in Karnataka , Belgaon(?) and he visited there defunct Press and acquired a Few of the remaining ones. All that was left of there publications was one room full of intermingled pages.

Photographs can be seen below:

Library Shelves:
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Bhagavata Gita Sharada 1:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919992008254885

Bhagavat Gita Sharada 2:
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Multi Text Composite Sharada Manuscript with Paratrimshika and Svachchand Bhairava:
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Oriental Research Institute, Mysore
Thanks to Prof. Filliozat I got to meet Madam Devaki the Director. She informed me that they have around 60K Manuscripts of which 40K were micro-filmed( this could be wrong I am quoting from memory). I proposed that if possible I can setup a Team to convert these into PDFs and put them on archive.org

I was delighted to see there Catalog had an entry for both a Vigyan Bhairava and a Vigyan Bhairava Vyakhya. The Physical Copy however couldn’t be located.

Three Manuscripts I photographed:

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https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919308758323210

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Pictures from there Display Shelves:
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https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919309574989795

Random Images:
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Maharaja Sanskrit College( Pathshala ) 

Whereas in ORI, Mysore, I didnt get to see there Books or the Library at large besides the small Reading Room, in Pathshala I got to examine better thanks to the Director Pandurangiji.

The Library is teeming with book antiquities and so far in my survey of Libraries this one stands out in the category of antique books.

I photographed two books and one manuscript:

Th Ayurvedic Ajirna Manjari 1883

https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919315771655842

A Marathi Translation on Jyotish, 1877:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919311644989588

Devi Saptashati Manuscript:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/eGangotrigranthanaam/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1919311931656226

 

Some Shelf Images:

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Made a Short stop at Purna Prajna Vidyapeeth, Bangalore and photographed one text:
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