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INTRODUOTION
chapter-mark “Apabhramsārambhah". The Prākrit portion opens thus”...om Prāmaḥ, and the concluding portion runs as follows :
'विद्यातपोऽर्थी वादीन्द्रः पूर्वग्रामी द्विजः कविः।
चक्रपाणिसुतो ज्यायान् नप्तासौ श्रीपतेः कृती ॥ इति वादीन्द्र-चक्रचूडामणि-महापण्डित-श्रीक्रमदीश्वरकृतौ संक्षिप्तसारे रसवत्यां वृत्तौ संधिपादादिना प्राकृतान्तेन द्वितीयोध्यायः। श्रीराममयशर्मणः स्वाक्षरमिदं geri 7 11 Peus 11
$ 7. V=This is also a country-made paper manuscript of the University of Viśva-Bhārati, bearing the No. 554. It is only fragmentary and has six folios only. It begins from the eleventh folio and ends with the sixteenth. Details of this portion of the manuscript era as follows :• Folio 118 starts with the line "jjà ityetau vā bhavatah" of the verb-chapter. Then it has the Dhātvādeśa chapter, which begins with" jalpāder jampādiņ" and ends in the middle of 12b.
Folios 125-13a=Deśīsāro nipātaḥ. Folios 13a - 15b= Apabhramsārambhah.
Folio 15b-15b (4thline)= Sauraseni-prākyta saprāk;tamiśra-upanā. gare gathādau.
Folios 15b (last line) - 161=Magadkā prākṣta.
Folioa 16a - 16b=discussion of the sūtra "Sabare sor etvam". It has five or six lines to a page and its size is 163 x 4 inches. It bears neither the date, nor the name of the scribe. But from the general appearance of the Bengali character of this manuscript, it may be conjectured that it was written about some 150 years ago. The commentary (Vștti) of this manuscript fully corresponds to that given in Lassen's Institutiones. So it may be regarded as the commentary of Candide vasarmā.
$ 8. S=This manuscript in Bengali script, found in the Govern. ment Sanskrit College, Calcutta, is complete in 27 folios of country. made paper and is distinotly written in black ink by a modern copyist from some earlier one. It has been collected from Shri J. N. Training School, Majhilpur, 24 Parganas, pear Calcutta. The number of this
1) Reference to this manuscript is found in the Puthi Paricaya (Vol-II) by Sri Pañoánana Mandala, śāntiniketana, 1959, p. 232.
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