Chakkammuvaeso

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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Mss. of this work. 5 He very kindly obtained for me two good Mss, of which one was the oldest and the other of the later date. I constructed the text with the help of these two Mss. along with the Dhruva Ms. And the text so constructed, satisfied me for editing purposes. The basic text however relies on the Dhruva Ms. from which I made my press-copy, though the old and more exact Ms. B from Āmer Bhanļār, Jaipur has immensely helped me in modifying the text and putting it in the right form. B. contains profuse marginal notes and also the good and clear version of the work. It has helped me a lot in the understanding of the text and its collation. The later Ms. from Jaipur has also been helpful to me in its own way.
The description of the Mss. utilised for the text construction is as under :
I Ms. A. Dhruva Ms.- It is now in possession of Gujarāt Vidyāsabhā, Ahmedabad.
The Beginning :
Il 40 dB facit II TATT4140 etc. The Colophon at the end of leaf 104 :
संवत् १५४४ वर्षे कुवारसदि १० सनिवार । गोलापूर्वानाए बलात्कारणे सरस्वतीगच्छे साधुश्रीं जिणदास तस्य पुत्र पं. असपाललिषितं ।।
It has : 104 leaves; size : 10.5 in. x 4.4 in. with 5 in. margin left on both the sides, as well as at the top and the bottom of the page; with an average of 10 lines on each side of a leaf.
Il Ms. B. Jaipur Ms. : It belongs to Āmer Šāstra Bhandāra, Jaipur. It is termed Ms. No. 4 in the f ace of the Amer Šāstra Bhandāra, Jaipur, p. 173. The Ms. is twice read and annotated in the marginal space by two different readers - probably belonging to the border of Gujarāta and Rajasthāna. It contains vertical marks to separate words. The Sandhi of the vowels is separated on the line generally by 37 = 5;3 = 3; 3 = V or X;r="; the glossed word is marked by = ; also the no. of the line of the glossed word is given on the margins of both the sides and the margins above and below the side of a leaf. The gloss by one reader is in small letters. The enumerations
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5 The Catalogue of the Mss. of the Amera Šāstra Bhandāra of Jaipur is prepared and edited with an introduction, several indexes etc. by Sri Kasturchand Käsliwäl, M.A. Šāstri ; and is published by Prabandha-Käriņi Committee, Sri Digambara Jain Atiśaya Kșetra Mahāvīraji, Mahāvira Park Road, Jaipur (Rājasthāna), 1950.