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34 after final ç or st, (ii) to indicate a hyphen and (iii) to denote a mark of hiatus,
The object in giving the squares Nos. 36-46, 65 and 66, 47-49 and so is to show how the signs for ikära?, ikara, ekaraz and anusvāra of the Devanagari script are written in an ornamental way in Mss.
The sign ✓ placed above the känă of it given in the 67th square occurring in tne last line of the 2nd plate suggests that this kana is to be deleted. Generally, when a letter is not to be taken into account, a dot is placed above it.4
It is said that at times a circles is drawn circumscribing a letter to indicate that it is not wanted. I do not remember to have noticed it up till now but I have come across Mss. 6 where the redundent portion is placed in brackets.
I Cf. William Dwight Whitney's A Sanskrit Grammar (p. 7).
2 Some of the ornamentations pertaining to this are found on p. 16 of the prastāvanā of Sanmati prakarana (Sri Puñjābhai Jaina Granthamālā, No. 6). 3 See also No. 318
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578 4. See v. 142 given on fol. 400b of Gommațasāra No.
5 This circle is called " kundalanā ". See “A Sanskrit English Dictionary ” (p. 235 ) by Monier Williams. Prin. K. K. Handiqui has made a similar remark in his foot-note on kundalanä (p. 548 ) occurring in Naişadhacarita (I, 14). Vidyadhara in his commentary to this verse (fol. sb of No.
No. 454 1)
) makes the
1895-1902 following observation regarding kundalanā:
“अन्यदपि यदाधकं शब्दादि भवति तस्य निरर्थकत्वाद् रेखया कुण्डलना क्रियते। ...iaraforayfarfar $0541..." Nārāyaṇa in his commentary (p. 13 ) of the Nirnayasagar edition says :-.
"a fra USTT OT: " 6 See leaf 1478 of over No. 92 (B. O. R. I. ), and leaf 2105 of Fogia, a Ms. belonging to Yadugiriyatirāja magha.
