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Kavyanusasana
On the margin of 79B in the same handwriting अलंकारचूडामणि विवेको पत्र ७९.
7. N. This is the printed edition of the Kāvyānu sāsana with the Viveka, published by the Nirnaya Sāgara Press, Bombay, and referred to in the present text by the letter N. The readings of its Kāvyänusāsana portion mostly agree with I. Viveka in the N edition is so hopelessly incorrectly printed that at several places one can make nothing of the text.?
The Text
In preparing the text of the Sūtras and the Alamkā. rachūdāmani P has been adopted as the basis and its defects and mistakes have been corrected with help of the I, the L, and at a few places with the help of N.
The text of the Viveka is not based upon any one manuscript, because none of the three is sufficiently correct in its readings to be adopted as the basis of the text. However, providentially enough, the three together have corrected one another and provided a tolerably good text. A comparison of the Viveka of the present edition with that of the Nirnaya Sāgara will bear out this remark.
Readings other than those adopted in the present text are noted in the foot-notes. The variants of the Kāvyānusāsana and the Viveka are numbered together consecutively. A careful persual of these
1 For other details about the manuscripts such as dropping of passages, change in the order of words, lacunae etc. see pp. 31, 34, 40, 50, 53, 54, 59, 60, 81, 96, 99, 129, 142, 156, 188, 202, 205, 260, 262, 265, 296, 302, 311, 313, 318, 321, 327, 356, 386, 404, 419, 431, 437, 466 etc. of the text.
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