N.D. Mironov s Contribution to the Description of the Buddhist Manuscripts at the Indian Collection of Asiatic Museum, IOM, RAS
Two first decades of the 20th century in the history of Indian collection of Asiatic Museum, IOM, RAS were connected with the name of Nikolay Dmitrievich Mironov (1880 1936) who worked in these years with this collection containing numerous manuscripts written in many languages and in many scripts. The topic of the article is his approaches to the problem of description of these documents and the results of his work. Buddhist manuscripts in Sanskrit housed in this collection before 1913 were first systematized by N.D. Mironov as a whole set demonstrating fundamental genres of Mahāyāna written heritage hymns, sūtras (homiletic texts), śāstras (treatises) and different variants of the terminological dictionary Mahāvyutpatti.