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रूपावतारटीका
No. 90
Grammar
Description
Rūpāvatāraṭīkā
Size 21 in. by 2 in.
Extent — About 116 plus 6 leaves, 10-12 lines to a page, 90-100
letters to a line.
Tough palm leaves, very much worm eaten and several of them broken to pieces; Malayalam characters. The leaves are not numbered and seem to have got mixed up. Fragile and fragmentary. Written by means of a stylus and rubbed over with lamp-black except towards the end. The Ms. contains at least 2 if not 3 works : (a) रूपावतारटीका, (८) वाक्यपदीय (stray leaves ), (c) further stray leaves, (d) रूपावतारटीका, (e) धातुप्रत्यय पञ्चिकाटीका.
Age -
Very old in appearance.
Author – Not given. The name of the author of the original, viz. धर्मकीर्ति, is given on fol. 1.
Begins ( 8 ) - गणपतये नमः ।
43
1919-24
Subject — Commentary on portions of the रूपावतार, the second part of which is called the धातुप्रत्ययपञ्चिका.
अभि त्रिलोकीनालीकमाम्नाय.........। ... भूदेवेभ्यो नमो नमः ॥
अभिगतषडाभ...
..दतिहृद्यं शब्दविद्यानुमोदम् ।
स जयति भवकीर्तिः संमतो धर्मकीर्तिः ॥ अमुष्य हृदि वारिधिं प्रति... कृते व्याकृतौ कथं भु................ ....... मादृशां । चिरान्महदनुग्रहादिह तु लब्धवाणीलवा ननु......... तयाम्यहं केवलम् ॥
अत्र रूपावतारस्य पाठेषु विविधेष्वपि । एतस्यैव प्रयत्नोऽयमनुवृत्त्यै वितन्यते ॥
थारम्भे मङ्गलार्थं ग्रन्थकृत् प्रसिद्ध रसिकत्वालौकिकस्मृत्या परमाचार्य नमस्यति - येनाक्षरसमाम्नायमिति ॥ अक्षराणां
