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INTRODUCTION
A Critical description of the manuscript used by the editor, indicating its relation with previous sources.
There is found only one MS. of the Rasaratna Samuccaya of Sri Manikyadeva Sūri at the library of L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad-380 009. GUJARAT
(1) MS --Regd. No. 5668, L. D.
Ahmedabad-9, Gujarat.
Institute
of
Indology,
Only this manuscript as available here has been used by me in editing the Rasaratna Samuccaya. It is a well-preserved MS. in good hand writing in Devanagari script It has seven folios of paper measuring 27 x 10 c.m = 10.1"X33", 2 c.m. =half inch on right and left. a little less on top and bottom, 14 lines on the first page, 15 lines on the last page and 13-15 lines on the intermediate pages. The marginal space does not vary and the whole MS. is written by one hand. It has average 35-48 letters to a line due to the space left in the middle and the use of big types of letter.
The colophons (see the last verses of the first, second and third chapters) clearly say that the work was composed by Sri Māņikyadeva Sūri. The elaborate prasasti stanza of the end of the third chapter gives the genealogy of the teacher of the author, Sri Māņikyadeva Sūri.
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