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INTRODUCTION The Manuscript Material and Editing of the Text ***
-- H. C. Bhayani According to the Jain Gurjara Kavio (Second edition, p. 221), three Mss of LC are known :(1) From the Pātan Bhamdār collection, (2) from the Samgha Bhamdār collection and (3) The Bhandarkar Research Institute collection. The present edition is based on the xerox-copy of the Ms. from the Saingha Bhamdär. According to my information the Patan Bhamdır Ms. is a copy of the Sangha Bhamdār Ms. Similarly the xerox copy of the Ms. from the Bhandarkar Research Institute Collection, which | acquired and examined is a duplicate of the Pātan Bhamdār Ms.
The Ms. is numbered 83/2024. It contains 28 leaves. 14 lines per folio. 38 to 44 letters per line. Clear, bold handwriting. Beginning : ft aéfATRY TH: 11 End : gfast foaia I TH ATT HITHRİ
Shfuquara 11 It is followed by list of the metres used in the work. In the Ms. the leaves comtaining vv, 129-151 are missing. So it cannot be said where the second Adhikära ends and the third Adhikära begins
Due to usual scribal practices, there are numerous orthographic errors in the Ms. such as ś or s for $, tad for od or vice versa, omission or addition of Anusvåra, omission or repetition of some letter or word. confusion between 3, 3, ?, ?, , etc. In several cases a line or iis part is missing. Such obvious citors have been corrected. Where there is somc doubt about the textual reading it has been indicated by a querry, The errors in the designation or the numbering ctc. in the case of metres also have been corrected. The meaning of a number of lines also is not clear.
Authorship and Date ललितांगचरित्र or रासकचूडामणि was written by Isvarasuri in 1505 A.C. Isvarasuri was also called Devasundara. Îśvarasûri belonged to the Samdcra-gaccha. His Curu-paramparā is as follows :
यशोभद्रसूरि - शालिसूरि (१) - सुमतिसूरि (१) - शांतिसूरि (१) -- ईश्वरसूरि
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