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8891
III. 4 Malasatras
The text together with its Sanskrit commentary styled as Kathakośa is published in two parts as Nos. 77 and 87 respectively, in the Sheth D. L. J. P. F. Series, in A. D. 1932 and 1937 respectively.
No. 889
भरतेश्वर बाहुबलिस्वाध्याय कथाकोशसहित
The second edition of a Gujarati translation of the Kathakośa is published by Maganlal Hathising, Ahmedabad, in A. D. 1902.
For quotations see Peterson, Report IV, p. 110, and Mitra, Notices VIII, p. 163.
For additional Mss. see B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, P. 444.
Age.
265
Bharatesvara-Bahubalisvādhyāya
with Kathakośa
333.
1871-72.
Size. 10 in. by 41 in.
Extent. 249 folios; 13 lines to a page; 48 letters to a line.
Description. Country paper tough and white; Jaina. Devanagari characters with occasional TS; small, legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; white paste, too; fol. 1a blank; foll. 54-249 also numbered as 1, 2, etc. in the interlinear space; this Ms. contains the text as well as the commentary; both complete; in the latter we have kathas of Śilavati, Nandayanti, Rohiņi, Ratisundari and Śrīmati, though these female saints are not mentioned in the text; these kathas commence after the completion of those of the crowned queens of Kṛṣṇa; edges of the first and last foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole good. Fairly old.
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