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of the soul-qualities words have frequently been used without inflections. In fact, abbreviated forms with dots are also met with all over in the Mss. But since the Mss, used by us were not uniform on the point, we preferred to give the fuller forms, and have also taken the liberty to complete the enumerations where omissions in the Mss. were obvious But we have not attempted to make the words inflected for fear of changing the entire character of the author'a style which is so natural in its own way under the circumstances.
The number of older verses found quoted in this volume is thirteen, all in Prakrit. One of them (No. 228, on page 788 ) is said to have been taken from Pindia 'a work which is otherwise unknown.
As before, I have, in this brief survey, avoided details which the interested reader would find in the Hindi translation.
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