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A. Katantra
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Description-Smooth country paper. Devanagari characters, bold
and legible writing, erasures made by yellow powder and corrections marked in the margins. Complete : Consiste ing of 1 संज्ञापादः
| 1-8 आख्यातप्रकरणे पादाः 2-6 संधिप्रकरणे पादाः
1-6 कृत् and other suffixes 1-7 नामप्रकरणे पादाः
पाद 5 being devoted to the the last four being named | उणादिs. कारक, समास, तद्धित and स्त्रीप्रत्यय. The afar in metrical form-a fact not noted before. Similarly स्त्रीप्रत्ययपाद.
Age - appears to be a new copy. Author - Sarvavarman. Subject — The Sūtrapātha of the Kātantra school of grammar. Begins - ॐ नमः सरस्वत्यै । ॐ सिद्धो वर्णसमाम्नायः । तत्र चतुर्दशादौ स्वरम् ।
दश समानाः। तेषां द्वौ द्वावन्योन्यस्य सवौँ । पूर्वो हस्वः । पूर्वस्य
लघुसंज्ञापि वक्तव्या । परो दीर्घः etc. Ends - अवर्णादूटो वृद्धिः ॥ कृत्प्रकरणे धातुसंबंधपादः षष्ठः ॥ एते शर्मवर्माचार्य
विरचिता कातंत्रसूत्रा (?) समाता कृता ॥ Colophon — The usual colophon however runs :
इति लघुवृत्तौ संधिप्रकरणे संज्ञापादः प्रथमः etc.
Reference - For some account of the history of the Kātantra
school see R. Mitra's Descriptive Catalogue of the Bengal Asiatic Society Library, Part I, and Vol. I of Notices of Sk. Mss., second series, by Haraprasāda Shastri, preface. The Sūtras with Durgasimba's Vrtti and extracts from other commentaries have been edited by Eggeling in the Bibl. Ind. Series. The fact that the Ms. comes from Kāśmira and that the Colophon mentions in many places the manufer as also the correspondence of the text of the us of this Ms. with that of 279-280 of 1875-76 [= Serial Nos. 9-10 above] clearly shows that the Sūtrapātha of this Ms, follows
that given in छुछुक'लधुवृत्ति. That this Sutrapatha is diffe[Des. Cat. Vol. II, Pt. II]
