Abstract

Catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts have been principal sources of valuable textual information and major tools for students and scholars of Indology. This chapter aims to explore a select number of Sanskrit manuscript-catalogues in an effort to show that they can provide a good deal more information than the basic description and location of a literary artefact. It examines reports and catalogues that provide a manuscript's provenance, from two sources, one from north India and one from south India. The first volume of the catalogue of Mithila manuscripts and two reports of collections of manuscripts in Tamilnadu and parts of modern-day Andhra Pradesh were used for this study. One shows how catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts can be used to understand better India's general intellectual history; and the other points specifically to certain trends in intellectual history of a special region or area of India during the early modern period. Keywords:early modern period; India's general intellectual history; manuscript catalogues; Mithilā; north India; Sanskrit manuscripts; south India

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