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INTRODUCTION
1. CRITICAL APPARATUS
The text of Usāņiruddham, presented here, is based on the transcript made from the Ms. No. 2817, belonging to the Government Oriental Mss. Library, Madras. I got this transcript through my friend Dr. V. RAGHAVAN, Sanskrit Department, University of Madras, Madras. It contains 94 sheets written on one side only. I am assured that it is a faithful copy of the original, and the gaps, etc., in the transcript are all inherited from the original Ms. The copy is checked by another reliable hand, and there are marginal and interlinear corrections in red ink. Some of them are based on the careful and revised reading of the Ms., and I have taken them into account in settling the text. There are some other marginal suggestions which are accompanied by a question mark, but they are not treated as a part of my critical apparatus. Some of these suggestions are intelligent, but many of them betray a tendency to Prākritise the Sanskrit Chāyā.
The Ms. in the Madras Library, I am informed, is in Devanāgari characters; and it is evident from the transcript
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