नराभरणम् /6

After the last part of the Kaāvyamala Gucchakas in 1906, no

sustained attention was bestowed on this line of work. This was

also the time when new collections of Sanskrit manuscripts were

being organised in Universities and Oriental Institutes, all of
which threw up an enormous amount of minor poems, playlets,

which threw up an enormous amount of minor poems, playlets,
hymns, centuries of lyrics and reflective verses, short texts on

poetics, prosody etc. Histories of Sanskrit literature which were

written could not know all this continuous output in Sanskrit

through the centuries and most of them confined their accounts

to the period before the 12th or 13th century, with brief mention

of stray or select works of the later centuries.
 

I had been advocating for long that Sanskrit manuscript

libraries, in addition to their series of major Text-editions, should

run their own Bulletins and publish therein the minor works in

their collections. The Trivandrum (now Kerala) University

Manuscripts Library, with which I had some association, adopted

the suggestion and upto this day, the journal of this Library, the

only one to keep to this plan so far, has been able to bring to

light a considerable number of poems, plays, hymns etc. written

by authors who flourished in Kerala or were patronised by the

different royal houses in Kerala.
 

The Sanskrit Commission appointed by the Government of

India devoted much attention to the question of manuscripts and

their publication. The Central Sanskrit Institute (Kendriya Sams-

krita Vidyapitha), Tirupati, which is born out of the Commission's

Repo:t, has naturally the responsibility to carry out as many as
rt, has naturally the responsibility to carry out as many as
possible of the Commission's recommendations coming within the

purview of its work. This need to bring to light the large mass

of short works lying in manuscripts was mentioned in the outline

of work I presented at the first Convocation of the Vidyapeetha,

which was addressed by the then Union Education Minister,

Dr. K. Shrimali, and later my proposal to the Research Committee

of the Institute to edit and bring out for the Institute, for this

purpose, a periodical called Malayamāruta was endorsed by the

members.
 

 
The plan of the Malayamãruta is the same as that of the
āruta is the same as that of the
Kaāvyamālā Gucchakas. Short unpublished works, in the same

fields covered by the latter, will be issued here. When more than