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Sabda kaustubha
शब्दकौस्तुभ No. 81
566 1887-88
Size—8 in. by 49 in.
Extent - The Ms. contains the first pāda of 1st Adhyāya, which
is divided into 9 Ahnikas each with a separate paging, as underÄhnika I=(27-2=) 25 foll; Āhnika VI=leaves 29 ; Ahnika II=leaves 31;
Āhnika VII= . 14; Ahnika III= , 25;
Ahnika VIII= , 45 ; Ābnika IV , 28;
Ahnika IX= 35. Āhnika V , 31;
Total leaves 263
263 leaves ; 12 lines to a page ; 37 letters to a line. Description-Foreign paper with watermarks ; Devanāgari charac
ters; clear and legible writing ; generally correct. Leaves 3 and 4 of Āhnika first missing. Between leaves 1 and 2 of Āhnika 3rd a blank side of a leaf occurs without any lacuna in the text. Pada I complete.
Age — Is not very old in appearanoe.
Sabdakaustubha
शब्दकौस्तुभ No. 82
247 1895-98
Size -10 in. by 4} in. Extent - (173+1=) 174 leaves ; 18 lines to a page ; about 40
letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters, bold and
legible hand. The first 20 leaves forming the 1st Āhnika of Adhyāya first are numbered separately from the rest of the work. The handwriting is not uniform. The margins are mostly covered over with annotations in a very minute
