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prototype which designated the soft sound by a dot put into the pa, as is often found in palm-leaf MS. A second phenomenon familiar from there is the frequent preservation of the tenuis k and p between vowels (e. 8. muccati 1, 1; kandaka 4, 6; lokammi 4, 20; ripū 15, 24), where also many cases of wrong analogy occur (e. g. vikincitta 3, 6, jati 4, 3, joko 45, 52), which are marked by italics. The media too has often been saved from being dropped (vadati 1, 1 etc.). In contrast to these preservations stands the liberty with which the poet occasionally foregoes declension, About twelve times we find the pure stem. This is obviously what Pischel Gramm. 19 bad chiefly in view, when he calls (not with justification) the language of the Dasav. "often much degenerated; the number of occurrences may be about the same. So far the general remarks. The reference to details be reserved to the commentary, for whịch, however, very narrow space limits were drawn. Next follows the text. The foot-notes to the latter are meant accurately to reflect the statements of the two prototypes, up till now the only ones, since also mere slips of the pen can be useful for a gencology of newly to be added MSS.
