Apbhramsa of Hemchandracharya

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Kantilal Baldevram Vyas, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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MS С, copied in V. S. 1518, has folios 10.3" by 4.3”, with side-margins 7" to .8” marked off with triple lines. The upper and lower margins are .3” to .4" broad. Verse and sutra numbers are, as usual, rubbed over will a red pigment and so are the beginning and end of each pāda. The handwritings are exceedingly nice, thick and steady. The ink used is dark and somewhat glossy. The paper is thin, but being very well-preserved has not turned brittle. Corrections are made as usual. Marginalia is written by the copyist himself. The script looks very probably as Brahmanical Devanagari.
Its colophon reads : # 8486 ai RAUGINTI qua1558 a HEIKELAT STIATTERT... Raider 1 Then, in a different hand, someone has added: Juftiffataalitza l a I GETTATI चित्कोशे पुण्यवृद्धिकृते ॥
The Tāda patra MS was so brittle that it had to be handled with extreme care. The present editor copied down the text from this MS at Acarya Jinavijayaji's place itself, since handling the MS was so difficult. It is much similar to other Tädapatra MSS, but the folios are somewhat smaller both in length and breadth. (Please see the facsimile reproduced here.)
The staple MS is rather small. It has also the same measure as other paper MSS, i. e. 10.3” to 4.4" with side-margins about .4” to .5” broad. Double lines mark off the margins. The upper and lower margins are .2” to .3” broad. Verse numbers are marked red.
The paper used is reddish brown and the ink used is black, though not glossy. The MS appears quite well-preserved and has a look of freshness. The script appears to be Brahmanical Devanāgari. Handwritings are small and good, but not always uniform.
The text differs from the 125CF published so far with the ACA. 34. c texts. It is shorter and much more to the point. The colophon does not give any details about its author. In the printed Dodhakavrtti texts also, which the present writer co handle, the author's name is not mentioned, though at places it (the present MS) closely follows and abbreviates Udayasaubhāgyaganin. One folio (from sūtra 383 vs. 3 to sūtra 396 vs 2) is missing in the MS.