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ABORİ : Diamond Jubilee Volume
few of the more legible places on the folios had to be deciphered, with the result, that only one highly doubtful trace of the Vimsikā' of Vasubandhu could be discovered in all the four Plates, labelled as : Vimśikā-vi'. The details of the four Plates, on which the labels attached by the photographer, are found to be misleading and the Plate-numbers given by him, in complete disarry, are given below after re-arrangment in their proper order. Re-arrangement of Plates and folio-numbers :
(1) Plate with the title label : “V-V 3B” should come first. It contains 14 folios on the left and 15 folios on the right, all b-sides with original numbers in the margins as : 1 to 14 in the left row and 15 to 28 in the right row, with an extra misplaced folio numbered 32, placed between 21 and 22. The total number of folios on this Plate is thus 29. On folio no. 1-b is seen the beginning of the first Sanskrit text. (See below). . .
(2) The Plate bearing the title-label : “V-V. 4A” comes second and covers obviously the 28 a-sides of the previous Plate, viz. 13 folios in the left row and 15 folios in the right, all with unnumbered margins. We can presume, that the a-side of folio no. 1 was not photographed, as it was the title-page, giving the name(s) of the text(s) included in this pothi, written in the centre of that folio as is the usual practice.
(3) The third Plate shows the label : “V-V. 2B” placed at the top of the left row. It contains the b-sides of 15 folios, numbered marginally as: 29, 30, 31 and 33 upto 44, and then continued in the right row as : 46, 45 and 47 (in that order). Below these 3 folios there is another title-label : “Pra. vā. ti-IB” under which are placed fourteen folios in a different handwriting, which are marginally numbered from 200 to 213 (thus making up a total of 32 folios on this whole Plate ).
(4) The Plate, fourth in order, has the label : “V-V. 2” (which I take to be 2A, since all the folios in this Plate are found to be unnumbered ). In the left row there are 15 foilos and in the right 3 (“ V-V”) + 14 ("Pravā. ți."), altogether 32 folios representing the a-sides of those found in the previous Plate.
Thus, after arranging the Plates in their proper sequence, we find that what is labelled as : " Vimśikā-vi.” consists of : 29 b-side folios of Plate (1), 28 a-side folios of Plate (2), (15+3=) 18 b-side folios of Plate (3) and (15+3 =) 18 a-side folios of Plate (4), thus making up a total of 47 folios (with two folios, viz. 32 and 45, misplaced and one a-side title-page fol. no. 1 missing ). We leave aside for the time being the additional Sanskrit text, appearing under the label: "Pra. vā. ți." on Plates (3) and (4) in fourteen