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Post-colophon Statement:
शक १३४२ ।
In this MS. there are two paginations.
The 99 leaves of the second pagination, bearing the date, seem to have been written in a much later hand than 115 leaves of the first pagination. In the latter, the figure 3 is written like, which is a letter numeral. In Eastern India letter numerals were a vanishing script about the Mahomedan conquest. So the first pagination in this manuscript should be placed about 100 years or more before the second, which will bring the manuscript to Śaka 1200 or thereabout. The date of Vardhamana, therefore, would be about that time at the latest, if it can be proved that the first pagination was the first manuscript written by him. But as that cannot be proved, his time would be coeval with the Mahomedan conquest, and his father's time about 40 years before that event. This will bring Gangesa's date to about 800 years before this time, as Bengal tradition says. This tradition is vouched by Jayanārāyaṇa Tarkapañcānana in the preface to Sarvadarsanasamgraha. In bringing the two portions together only half a line has been repeated.
Beginning:
भक्तानां कामदस्तुको रुघा कामं दहन्नपि । व्यपि ज्ञानमयः स्थाणुर्यस्तमीशं स्ववीमहि ॥ यतः प्रकाशते ज्योतिरपि वाचामगोचरः । कायेन मनसा वाचा परां वाचं नमामि ताम् ॥ न्यायाम्भोजपतङ्गाय मौमांसापारवृश्वने | गङ्गेश्वराय गुरवे पित्रेऽच भवते नमः ॥
