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Strassburg University Library. This work is apparently an abstract from the Vritti of Sântyâkârya, as in a great many passages it almost verbally agrees with Dêvêndra's work.
BONN: November, 1894.
The Bombay edition of the Sûtrakritânga (Samvat 1936 or 1880 A. D.) contains three commentaries: (1) Sîlânka's Tîkâ, in which is incorporated Bhadrabâhu's Niryukti. This is the oldest commentary extant; but it was not without predecessors, as Silânka occasionally alludes to old commentators. Silânka lived in the second half of the ninth century A. D., as he is said to have finished his commentary on the Âkârânga Sûtra in the Saka year 798 or 876 A. D. (2) The Dîpika, an abstract from the last by Harshakula, which was composed in Samvat 1583 or 1517 A.D. I have also used a MS. of the Dîpika in my possession. (3) Pâsakandra's Bâlâvabôdha, a Guzeratî gloss.-My principal guide was, of course, Sîlânka; when he and Harshakula agree, I refer to them in my notes as the 'commentators;' I name Sîlâńka when his remark in question has been omitted by Harshakula, and I quote the latter when he gives some original matter of interest. I may add that one of my MSS. is covered with marginal and interlincar glosses which have now and then given me some help in ascertaining the meaning of the text.
H. JACOBI.
