Kuvalayamala Part 2

SR No.: 002778
Original Sutra Author: Udyotansuri
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 368
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 12 MB

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KUVALAYAMALA
12.5 by 4.25 inches and contains 54 folios written on both sides, the first page being blank. Each page has 16 lines and each line about 78 letters. The Devanagari hand is neat, and paḍmātrās are used. There is a square black spot at the centre and black margin on all the four sides of a page with border lines on the right and left. Here and there red chalk is used to spot the numbers of verses and beginning of sentences etc. In many places it leaves blank space showing its agreement with C which makes additions in square brackets. Though neatly written there are scribal errors arising out of auditory and visual reception, while writing the Ms. The only punctuation-mark used is a single or double danda. Letters to be scored off are dotted on the head. Visarga is often misunderstood as a danda. Often visarga, instead of s, is used before k, p and ph. In a conjunct group with r as the first member, the other consonant is written as double almost uniformly. As the Ms. does not use commas or inverted commas, it has samdhi wherever possible, though it is not rigorously adopted always. Generally, anusvāra is used and not para-savarna, and it stands even at the end of a pada. Often st and sth are not distinguished; s and s are mutually confused; and $ and kh are interchanged. The opening and concluding portions are already re produced in the foot-notes on pp. *1 and *87. The Ms. is more than 525 years old, being written in Samvat 1489 [-57] i.e., 1432 A.D.
B-This is a paper Ms. belonging to the Govt. Collection now deposited in the Bhandarkar Oriental Reseach Institute, Poona. It is numbered 1327 of 1891-95. The colour of the folios has turned brown, and some portions of the edges have marks of dampness. Total number of folios is 65 of which the first four are missing; the opening words are: tṛṇam apy acalayate, coming on p. *61.5 of this edition; and the pages are renumbered in pencil from 1-124/33. The folios measure 14.5 by 4.5 inches. There is a square blank spot in the centre, and margin is left on all the four sides. Most of the border-lines are filled with red chalk with which are also spotted nos. of verses and beginnings of sentences etc. Each page has 17 lines and each line some 56 letters. The Ms. is written in Devanagari with paḍimātrās. The letters are squarish and the hand is uniform. Additions and glosses are noted on the margin: some of the latter are given in the foot-notes of this edition. Some spots are left unwritten whenever the ink from the other side has percolated. There are scribal errors now and then. The use of samdhi and the position of dandas are rather loose. Very often s and s are confused; visarga is put for s before k or p; and ș and kh are interchanged. Often, when r is the first member of the conjunct group, the other consonant is double (rvv, rmm, rpp, but nirbhara). Generally anusvāra is used and not para-savarna. In many places words which are separated in this text by commas, dandas and inverted commas are joined in samdhi. The concluding portion is reproduced in the foot-notes on p. *87 of this edition.