items. I was especially impressed with some of the manuscript materials relating to Pramana studies (which had been one of Rahulji's chief interests), and with some of the the older manuscripts and xylographs. I found most of the books to be in a good state of preservation; the lion's share of the collection consists in fact of recent prints from Central Tibetan blocks (especially from the Zhol printeries). There was no recent insect or water damage to be seen, though some mildew was noticeable and of course the paper of the older xylographs and manuscripts is inevitably becoming brittle.
While going through the bundles, I recorded titles and pagination, and also indicated the names of authors and the places of printing where I could easily discern them from the titles or colophons. I also made a few additional comments regarding subject or edition when a work seemed to merit special attention. To each individual work or separately titled fascicle, I assigned a number, following as closely as possible the numbers in the previous catalogue, and of course keeping to the bundle numbers actually marked on each bundle. A number of "bundles" consisted of a single fragment of a damaged work (for example, nos. 898, 949 and 1057-1060) or of one or two very small fascicles of larger compilations that had been inexplicably broken up and made into separate bundles (for instance, the 'Od gsal rdo rje gsang mdzod gter-ma collection). In a few instances I found bundles out of order, and in many bundles there were extra works that had not been indicated in the earlier catalogue. In most cases I assigned additional sub-numbers to these unlisted works. For example, old no. 1138 (Bundle no. 344) was found on actual inspection to contain twenty-three fascicles. So the new numbering was 1138-1, 1138-2 and so forth, up to 1138-23. Some bundles contained dozens of short ritual or devotional works, and a few (for instance B. nos. 247, 271 and 276) consisted of a large mass of incomplete works or of what can only be characterized as "religious rubbish"- unwanted materials that had been deposited in some suitable place such as an out-of-the-way nook of a temple or inside a stupa. I did not think these bundles warranted as detailed or complete a treatment, so I just described their contents in a general way and listed one or more works or fragments found in the bundle. Similarly, when a bundle was a volume from the collected works of a well-known writer, to save time I described it merely as such-and-such volume of that author's works, and I did not give the titles of each fascicle.
When I returned to New Delhi, I worked on this project in my spare time, having the notes retyped and preparing alphabetical indexes for both authors and titles. For accomplishing these tasks I relied much on the energetic secretarial assistance of Ms. Doma Chozom. At this stage for the convenience of non-specialists I added simple subject descriptions to many entries, basing myself for the most