________________ Restoration and Emeedation 135 the date of the Dipa could hardly be extended beyond a hundred years (or a few generations) after the Kosakara, a date which we have assigned to acharya Vimalamitra. Restorations and Emendations : The MS. is fairly correct and needed very little correction. In doubtful places and where the MS was erased or broken, and where the photographs were not clear, we have restored the text with the help of the the Saku, and the presscopy of Professor Pradhan's edition of the Bhasya. All these restorations are given in square brackets. A few letters (two or three) of the first line of a large number of folios are lost under the drawing pins used by the photographer in pinning the palm-leaves. The restorations of these letters are also given in square brackets. The emendations are given in round brackets. The majority of these emendations consist of a change of the letter na into na or vice versa. The rules of cerebralisation of na are not generally observed. We may note here a few cases of such irregularity : : (A) Words where the dental na is used instead of cere bral na :-apramana (p. 287), aprahina (p. 238), abhinishkramana (p. 274), avenika (p. 80), Airavana (p. 389), kriyamana" (p. 69), gauna (p. 367), Narayana (pp. 14, 101), nirvana (p. 364), paramanu (p. 65), prahanza (p. 238), prahinas (p. 28), lakshana (p. 417) lavana (p. 77), vakshyamana (p. 193), sonita (p. 274), sramanera (p. 130), sramanyaphala (p. 57), etc. (B) Words where cerebral na is used instead of dental na :--anarya (p. 89), anasrava (p. 365), abhilapana (p. 20), kirtana (p. 83), gagana (p. 13), nisraya (p. 12), mishyandaphala (p. 177), nirodha (p. 289), nirvana (p. 136), darshana, daurmanasya,* nirvartana (p. 136), parinirvana (p. 339), parinirvita (p. 426) pana (pp. 12, 1 Also kriyamana (p. 259). 2 Also prahana (pp. 146-7). 3 Also prahina (p. 147). 4. These two words are always spelt in this way.
