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ÎNTRODUCTION
85 VIII COMMENTARIES ON THE SETUBANDHA. We shall now give an account of the Sanskrit commentaries on the Setubandha utilized for this work. Only two of them have so far been published, that of Ramadāsa and the anonymous Setutattvacandrikā, hereinafter referred to as SC. Some of the unpublished commentaries are incomplete and fragmentary ; while quotations from a few others, otherwise unknown, are found in SC. As the titles of the commentaries are in some cases similar, they are here mentioned by the names of their respective authors.
Kțşņavipra The extracts from Kịşņavipra's commentary are given from a beautiful transcript of a Devanāgari manuscript (R. 3226) preserved in the Govt. Oriental Mss. Library, Madras. The Curator informs us that the manuscript along with those of the commentaries of Mādhavayajvan and Devarāta was copied during the years 1918-26 from the originals belonging to a resident of Nareri, Palghat District, Kerala ; but that there is nothing on record to indicate the script of the originals. The name of the scribe is given as Pasupati at the end. Apart from a few mistakes, the manu. script is generally correct and reliable. Unfortunately it is incomplete, as the gloss on Canto 14 is missing, and that on Canto 13 breaks off at verse 30. The division of the poem into Cantos in the South Indian recension will be dealt with later; here we give the numbers of the Cantos according to the generally accepted text.
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In his letter D. O. No. 47/AL/68 dated 14-3-68.
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