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ao means Vștti on Tardulaveyaliya. O means a reading of Tamdulaveyaliya text, available in the said Vștti. aqto means a reading recorded by the author of the said Vștti. O = , To = 21 and go = 3€219.
3. Camdāvejjhayam painnayan: Of the manuscripts used in editing the text of this Prakirņaka, the three viz. go, go, and to have already been described. The yo manuscript is also utilised, but this is the first go manuscript'. The sign g9to means a reading noted by some scholar in this go manuscript. The manuscript which has been given the sign o should be identified with a manuscript belonging to the Ācārya Shri Kşamābhadrasūri Collection. This 70 sign is found written in the 90 copy which has been prepared by Late Muni Shri Caturavijayaji on the basis of some old manuscript. But there is no note relating as to which Bhandāra this old manuscript belongs to. The colophon of the copyist of the old manuscript is also available in the a. copy. It runs as follows :
Samvat 1568 varse säke pravartamāne Kärttika Sudi 1 Ravau Śrīśrīmālajñātiya Sä, Sidhara Bhã. Sohi Su. Megha Bha. Ladikī Su. Sâ. Sonă Bhå. Jivade pramukhakutumbayutena Saha Sonäkena ŚriVrddhatapagacche SriLabdhisagarasūriņām upadešena saptaksetryām nijam dhanam vapata viśisya svapitļśreyase tarttamanasakalasiddhantakośo'lekhi/ Pam. GunasagaraganiCäritravallabhaganyoh samudyamena ciram namdatu //
The following information we gather from this colophon: Inspired by the preaching of Ācārya Sri Labdhisāgarasuri of Vĩddhatapāgaccha, Sonā Setha who was a husband of Jīvāde Sethāṇī, grand-son of Sidhara Setha and Sohi Sethāṇī, and son of Meghā Śetha and Lādaki Sethāṇī, established in 1568 V.S. a Manuscript Library, spending money in seven Fields and especially getting the scriptures copied. Sidhara Setha belonged to Srimālajñāti. In the establishment of the Manuscript Library Pam. Guņasāgaragari and Căritrayallabhagani extended their cooperation. Let this Manuscript Library flourish for long.
Many additional gāthās found in the tocopy are not available in any of the manuscripts of Candrāvedhyakaprakīrņaka but they are from the works like Maranasamadhi. These additional găthas had been written first in separate sheets of paper by Shri Caturvijayaji, considering them useful at different places and then were added by him in the copy prepared by him. These gathās are corrupt at many places. Hence it seems that they must have been copied from some manuscript by Shri Caturvijayaji. O indicates the printed text edited by Dr. Colette Caillat and published by the
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