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Grammar Author - Hemacandra. Subject - An abridgement by the author of his own larger com
mentary on his own aphorisms of grammar. Begins - मई॥
प्रणम्य परमात्मानं श्रेयः शब्दानुशासनं ।
आचार्यहेमचंद्रेण स्मृत्वा किंचित्प्रकाश्यते॥१॥ अहं ॥ अहमित्येतदक्षरं परमेश्वरस्य परमेष्ठिनो वाचकं मंगलार्थ शास्त्रास्यादौ प्रणिदध्महे ॥छ॥ सिद्धिः स्याद्वादात् ॥ स्याद्वादादनेकांतवादात् प्रकृतानां
शब्दानां सिद्धिनिष्पत्तिप्तिश्च वेदितव्या। Ends - वावाप्योस्तनिक्रीधाग्रहोर्वपी ॥ अवाप्योपसर्गस्य तन्क्रियोरपेश्च धाग्रहों
. परयो यथासंख्यं वपी वा स्यात् ॥ वतंसः । वक्वयः। अवक्रयः ॥ पिहितं ।
शब्दानुशासनवृत्ति
Sabdānusāsanavrtti
61 No. 117
1885-81 Size — 144 in. by 24 in. Extent - 291 leaves, 4 to 6 lines to a page, 50 letters to a line. .. .. Description - The Ms. is written on tough palm-leaves, most of
which are in good preservation. Leaves from 8-19 are somewhat broken in the left hand corner, leaves 20-288 are well preserved. There are 4 fragments before the 8th leaf broken at both ends. There are another 4 fragments after leaf 288, containing the left hand half entire. They are foll. 289-292. Fol. 273 is numbered twice, and between fol. 157 and 158 a supplementary paper leaf written on one side only is inserted. Including the 8 fragments and the 2 additional leaves the total No. of leaves is 291. The Ms. is written in bold and 'legible Devanagari characters with पृष्ठमात्राs, on both sides of a central-blarike
