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INTRODUCTION
1. CRITICAL APPARATUS
The Prakrit text, critically edited here, and the Sanskrit commentary of the Lilăval (Sk. Lilāvati) are based on the material from the following MSS. :
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P-This stands for the Transcript of the palm-leaf MS. belonging to the Sanghavi Pada Bhandara, Pattan, and noticed by Dalal in his Descriptive Catalogue of MSS. in the Jaina Bhandaras at Pattan, Vol. I, G. O. S., No. 76 (Baroda 1937), pp. 57 (Intro.) and 193, No. 316. The palmleaf MS. has got 131 leaves, measuring 14 by 2 inches and written on both sides of the leaf in Devanagari hand. There are occasional marginal notes; and the first five leaves are damaged on one side, thus creating some lacunae in the text. I have personally seen the first and the last leaves of this MS. The edges of it are broken; the leaves are extremely brittle; and the central string-holes are enlarged. It is written with ink in an uniform, clear and legible Devanagari script quite usual in Jaina MSS. As a rule the paḍimātrās are used throughout. On the left-hand margin the pagination is by letters and on the right hand by numerals. On the first page we have śri upon 1 which corresponds to 1; and on the last page we have vertically su, snā and some sign like that of 1, which together stand for
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