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INTRODUCTION
1. CRITICAL APPARATUS
The Prākrit text and the Sanskrit chayā of the Camdalehā (Sk. Candralekhā), presented in this edition, are based on the material from the following Mss.:
This stands for a Devanāgarī transcript of ms. No. 597 of the University Mss. Library, Trivandrum; and it was so kindly made available to me by Dr. L. A. Ravivarma. I am informed that the Ms. is in charge of the Curator's Office, Trivandrum. It is a paper Ms. written in Devanāgarī characters, measuring 131 by 83 inches and having 152 pages with 18 lines on each page. It was prepared some twenty years back. The original source from which it was actually copied cannot be traced now, nor is the age of it recorded. It is, however, surmised that the original source might be out of the three under-mentioned palm-leaf mss.: 1) Candralekhă Sattakam, obtained from Govind Pisharody, Kailasapuram, Vaikom; 2) Ibid., obtained from Brahmadattan Namburippad, Kudallur Mana, Nagalasseri, Pittambi; 3) Ibid., obtained from Narayanan Vasudevan Namburippad, Poonnurkottu Mana, Kunuattunad. I understand that all the three sources, and particularly Nos. 2 and 3, are homes of hereditary scholarship, and Mss. from them are almost always trustworthy. I have had no direct access either to the Trivandrum Ms. or to any of these three palm-leaf mss. ; but all my readings are taken from the transcript ka supplied to me. It contains both the Prākrit text and Sanskrit chāyā, written above and below on a page. There are some minor lacunae in a few places: they are quite negligible, and could be easily filled with the aid of the Sanskrit shade. In some places the text treats a few verses as running prose. It opens thus: sft: ethn (at the beginning of the Prākrit text) and ends with ill arbeter Fri Fa: Arar 11 (at the close of the chāyā).
@-At the bottom of the pages of the transcript ka, described above, certain variant readings are noted in red ink and are assigned to kha about which the following information is supplied to me.
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