Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 17 Part 02

SR No.: 018110
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parshuram Krishna Gode
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 416
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 23 MB

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Appendix 11
first three symbols given in the first three squares of the 1st plate, (ii) one of its variants or (iii) the combinations of one of them with or without a danda or dandas and a cipher or ciphers.'
The sign placed by the letter g in the 34th square, the last but one in the ist plate is generally regarded as one for anusvära. * But it appears that in this Ms. and some ofbers as well, it is used for a dash and for ornamentation, too. It seems it is used for upadhmo. niya also as can be seen from “The Palæography of India. ", plate XXVII.
Various signs have been used up till now while combining vowels with consonants. In plate No. XX given in The Palæography of India there are four distinct ways to be noticed regarding a sign for 3. One of them (the sign used for at in ) can be compared with what is used here above q* in the 35th square, the last in the first plate. Pandit Ohja has observed on p.3 that this is a matra of 31 and it belongs to the Kuțila script.
The sign occurring in the 52nd square (i. e. the 17th of the 2nd plate ) is one we meet with for jihvámūliya and upadhmänīya spirants, the Ist when a visarga is followed by and a, and the 2nd, when it is followed by q and g respectively.
The sign given in the 53rd square (i. e. the 18th of the 2nd plate) stands for the sign of avagraha (separator') which is used in the Mss. for three different purposes: (i) to mark the elision of initial
1 While going through this proof-sheet I learn that Prof. A. B. Keith has kindly replied to the Curator through whom I had inquired about the Jaina diagram. His reply is as under :
“..... the Jaina diagram referred to normally resembles the first form (6) given in Prof. Kapadia's letter and is sometimes held to be intended as an abbreviation of arham.”
2. Compare the Bengali method of writing anusvāra. 3. On fol. 3b of No.1086_(
F u rat), in the end we have in.
1887-91 4 For additional examples see the sign above on fol. le of No. 237
1873-74 (agresi ffrt), the sign on on fol. 36 of No._1403
- (Turcia) .
1886-92 and the sign on Ton fol. 1534 of No: 309 ( 1291 OTA FT).
1883-84... ..