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B. Paniniya School
रूपावतार
Rūpāvatāra
No. 89
308
1875-76 Size - 6 in. by 7 in. Extent - 263 leaves, 15 lines to a page, 18 letters to a line. Description - Bhūrja leaves much worn-out and tattered, but
pasted by paper slips at the edges. Sāradā Characters. Bold and generally legible handwriting ; correct. Several leaves in the beginning and at the end missing. The Ms. is bound in leather along with No. 275 and No. 311 of the same Collection, and is in a good state of preservation. The original pagination is visible in the majority of pages but has been torn off in the case of others, wbich renders the continuity of the text difficult to ascertain. The earliest numbered leaf is 25, before which there are fragments of 10 leaves. The last numbered folio is 380, but several intervening leaves are missing. The faastatter ends on the first extant leaf. The last extant leaf carries the text well towards the end of the कृत्प्रकरण, the Sutra ल्यपि लघुपूर्वात् (VI. 4. 40) occurring towards the bottom of its unnumbered side, and Faro157 (III. 4. 23) in the last line of the numbered
side. Age - The Ms. appears to be fairly old. Author - Not given. The work is generally attributed to
Dharmakirti. Subject - A recast of the grammatical sūtras of Pāṇini - perhaps
the earliest one attempted - after which the Prakriyā and the Siddhānta Kaumudis came to be modelled. The Sūtras are followed by the author's own running and
illustrative commentary. Reference - The work has been edited by M. Rangáchārya in two
volumes, Madras, the second volume appearing in 1927 as a posthumous publication. Since however the editor freely added and amended the text "for the use of College students” it is no wonder that the printed text differs largely from the Ms. almost on every page. For other Mss. see Descriptive Catalogue of Madras Oriental Library Mss., Vol. III, Nos. 1332ff.
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