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8107.
8845.
Substance, country-made paper. 91x31 inches. Folia, 1-30. Lines, 9, 10 on a page. Character, Nagara of the 18th century. Appearance, old and discoloured.
A fragment of a commentary on the Mimāmsāsūtra. It begins thus:
चोदनालक्षणो धर्मः
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ननु चोदनासूत्रेण शास्त्रारम्भे जिज्ञासासूत्रस्य शास्त्रवहिर्भावः स्यात् इत्याशङ्कामपास्य सुत्रतात्पर्यं तावदाह - प्रथमं तावदिति । को धर्मः कथं वा + ग इत्याद्यसूत्रोपक्षिप्तजिज्ञासा, etc. ननु कथमेकस्यैव सूत्रस्यार्थद्वयमुच्यते तत्राह
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It quotes in leaf 2A from Nyayaratnākara, in leaf 3A from बट्टीका, in leaf 3B from भट्टमिश्र - गुरु.
B. INDEPENDENT TREATISES. 8108.
595. प्रकरणपञ्चिका Prakaramapañcikd..
By Salikanatha, the pupil of Prabhakara Guru.
The MS. is noticed in L. under the name of Pramanapārāyaṇa, a section of the work.
It contains, however, all the 5 sections. I. Sastramukhaprakarana comes to an end in 6A; II. Nitipatha in 7B; III. Jatinirnaya in 14A; IV. Nayavithi in 16A; and V. Pramāṇapārāyaṇa in 6 chapters ends in 54A.
Printed in the Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series, No. 17, Benares, 1903-4. The printed text is defective and the Prameyapārāyaṇa is wanting. He uses Uddyotakara (e.g. p. 40) and Dharmakirtti, and therefore is not before 650-700 A.D., but is probably before Kumārila. Prabhakara thus dates about 600-650 A.D. (Keith, KM., p. 9, F.N. 2).