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Vastu as a matter of fact is a miniature Kadavaka in the fact that the first seven Matras of the first line are repeated as a dhruva-pada and Old Gujarati Mss. always place 2 to indicate repetition after these seven Matras The last duha is in the nature of a concluding verse or a Ghatia; while the lines 2 and 3 of the metre for in the body of the miniature Kadayaka Le of the Radda-unit.
A word about the author is relevant liere in this brief note. As the concluding stanzas of the work state, our writer Vardhamanasūri was the pupil of Abhayadeva-Süri, a well-known comuntator of the nine Angas His learned pupil Parsvacandra-gani copied out this work for the first time He composed this work as said before in V.S. 1160 when Gujarat was under the rule of the Caulukya monarch, Jayasımba, well-known as Siddharā ia Jayasitiba. He composed this work in Cambay (Kbanıbhāittha). As to the Mss-apparatus for this text, a word is cnough. A palm-leaf Ms. in Jaselmer of this work, was copied out when the late Agama-Prabhakara Mudrāja Sri Punyavijayji was there and thereafter the variants were noted in the copy from the Pātana Ms. Both the Mss, are Palm-leaf Mss, J. Ms. belng written in V.S. 1339 while P. Ms, was written in V.S. 1289, P. Ms. bas better variants than the J. Ms. (See. Catalogue of Sk. and Pk. Mss Jesalmer Collection p. 98, Serial No. 250, published by L.D, Institute of Indology, Abmedabad and Pattan Catalogue of Mss. G.O. Series, Baroda page 350, No. 101). The other Mss. of this work are also available at Patana and have been noted in the Catalogue referred to (p. 169, No. 285: p. 364, No. 55(2).
