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D. Paniniya School
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139) are written in a bolder hand, and perhaps by the same scribe that wrote the first three. The Ms. thus contains only the first pada of Adh. I.
Age Comparatively modern looking.
End At the end of Ahnika V, after the colophon, we read the following
लक्ष्मीधरोयं जनयांबभूव भट्टोजिभट्टं विदिषां मुडूनां । आश्वादयं तं मणिं यतोभून्नागोजीभट्टः सकलः शशीव ॥ १ ॥ भाष्योदधेस्तेन समुध्हतस्य निधित्सया माधवकं धरायां । भक्ताह्निकं पंचममंचमानं समाप्तमासीदिति कौस्तुभस्य ॥ २ ॥
शब्दकौस्तुभ
No. 80
Size-10 in. by 4 in.
Extent 255 leaves, 11 lines to a page, about 37 letters to a line.
Ah. 1 foll. 1-21; Ah. 2
foll. 1-30;
Ah. 3 foll. 1-23, yellow; Ah. 4 foll. 1-26, foll.
1-22 yellow;
Śabdakaustubha
Description-Country paper white and yellow, Devanagari characters. The Ms. consists of several portions written by different scribes on different kinds of paper and bound together like a modern book. It contains the 9 Ahnikas of the first Chapter put together as under
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1866-68
9 [ Des. Cat., Vol. II]
Ah. 5 Ah. 8
7 foll. 1-67;
foll. 48 in different paginations and handwriting; Ah. 9 foll. 1-40.
Total foll. 255
Age Some parts of the Ms. are more ancient looking and wormeaten; others fairly recent in appearance.