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व्याकरणमहाभाष्यं प्रदीपसहितं
No. 44
Grammar
Vyakarana-Mahābhashya with Pradipa
227 1892-95
Size 12 in. by. 6 in.
Extent leaves 481; lines 12 to a page; about 64 letters to a line.
Description-The Ms. seems to be put together by taking frag. ments from two separate Mss. written by two different hands on different sorts of paper. Both are written on country paper but the paper of the first part is thin and yellowish and the corners of many leaves are worm-eaten. This seems to be an older Ms. The other paper is thick and the handwriting more beautiful and legible than that of the former. The characters are Devanagari. The Ms. is correct on the whole; but incomplete.
Foll. 1–86 – To the end of प्रथमाध्यायस्य प्रथमपादे पंचममाह्निकं with fol. 39 missing. Then follows an independent paging :
Foll. 44-108-These take up the Ms. where it was left and carry it on the end of . The second pāda is missing altogether. A new paging and a hand similar to the first take up the Ms. from 3rd pāda Adhyāya I
Foll. 1-82-and carry it on upto the end of first Adhyaya. Fol. 77 is double; with a remark by a different hand that it is to fol. 77.
Foll. 1-136-Another series of folio in the same hand brings the Ms. to the end of 2nd Adhyāya. Between fol. 62 and fol. 63 there is one unnumbered page with the remark by the same hand as above that it is r. The second writer having commenced the Ms. with the beginning of the 7th Adhyāya has carried it on with fresh paging, foll.