Bhartuhari Shataka Trayam

Author(s): Bhartuhari, Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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PREFACE
BORI 277/1885-86
Srngāra and Vairas
This edition of Bhartphari's epigrams with the commentary of Dhanasăra was prepared at the request of Acārya Śri Jinavijaya Muni, without whose help and enccuragement the critical edition of Bharthari published in this Singhi Jain Series as No. 23, (in 1948) would not have been possible. During the course of preparation of the editio princeps I had to prepare the constituted text of all major versions, and Dhanasāra's is Version E. Dhanasāra's is the oldest known gloss, being dated Samvat 1535, at Jodhpur. The tīkā Rāmarşi was published as No. 127 of the Anandāśrama series. That by Maheśvarabhatta on a southern version had been published at Belgaum by others, while I found it necessary to revise the Nirnaysagar edition of Rāmacandra Budhendra. A consolidated southern version, critically edited by me and published in 1947 as No. 9 of the Bhāratiya Vidya Bhavan's series also had a commentary, which was then anonymous, but which has turned out since to be by an otherwise unknown Arkuttyalaya Balarām Kavi.
The commentary of Dhanasāra has its own value as a specimen of Jain Sanskrit used to explain a known text familiar to all students of classical Sanskrit, and should have been published long ago.
The actual edition was later revised from additional MSS for separate publication. The MSS utilized are :
in BORI 277/1883-4. Niti and Srngāra only. 9. = BORI 391/1892-95. Sșngāra and Vairāgya only. 77. = Gaekwar's Oriental Research Institute, Baroda, No. 1370.
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» » » 1780. 5. = BORI 795/1886-92. 3. =
BORI 382/1884-87; order of stanzas changed, but text agrees oftener with
than for any other MS. I. = A MS of the tikā only, catalogued as 334 at the BORI.
4. = No. 5 of the Sanskrit Pātha álā collection, Rājāpūr. Here. BORI means the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona 4, the MSS actually belong to the Bombay Government MS collection housed there, and descriptions will be found in the annual reports of the years given, or in greater detail in P. K. Gode's Catalogue, BORI MSS, Kāvya section, vol. XIII. MSS 3 and 2 were not directly utilized for my own critical edition of Bhartrhari, being of minor interest. The two Baroda MSS are good, but their tikā is emended, as is in greater measure that in z. The last MS above has suffered some emendations in copying. However, the first critical text was prepared from these in spite of the clearly visible diversity. Then valuablc support both for the text and the method came from the discovery (by kindness of Sri Punyavijaya Muni) of an ancignt codex at the Munirāja Śrt Hamsavijayaji Jain Bhandar, Baroda. No. 1074 of this collection, labelled in my variants, and given precedence over all the others, is the oldest known MS of the Dhanasăra version. The calligraphy dates it as before samvat 1600, while the principal information which we possess about Dhanasära comes colophon from which the reader can convince himself that the Ikä was written at Jodhpur in Samvat 1535.
da No. 1370.