Chaupannamahapurischariyam

Author(s): Shilankacharya, Amrutlal Bhojak, Dalsukh Malvania, Vasudev S Agarwal
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTION
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p. 141, 1. 22: Read kim anga puna-m--annão.
1. 29: Read ukkaitiena (MSS: ukkha-). p. 142, 1. 3 f.: I would now prefer to put the colon after durāyarini.
1. 19 : Put a question-tark at the end of the line. p. 145, v. 2: The MSS have anattham. Since anartha does not seem to have the meaning of "poor" it
might be better to read with SC/E (69, v. 160) anadaham (anādhyam). v. 10: Read with SC/E (69, v. 168) bahu = prabhu. v. 13: Read viggha.
v. 14: Read vavalthambham. p. 146, v. 6: It is difficult to connect viyajjha with the root dah (SC/E p. 246, note 5), but my reading
vimajjha does not seem to make sense. 1. 15: Read -patu - and - jjhallari - 1. 16: Read - kāhalārāva -. 1. 17: Read ahiseya - 1. 18: Read pesiy'.
$ 3. Survey of the contents of SC/M. Sections marked with an asterisk are reproduced or added in the present Introduction. In these cases references have been made to the paragraphs (89) of this publication, not to the pages of SCAM. A THE MANUSCRIPTS
1-17 1. Description of the manuscripts (the Jaisalmer MS and the Ahmedabad MS are
independent of eacb other, but the latter is on the whole more reliable); description of the gaps and abbreviations in the two MSS
1-5 The colophons of the manuscripts: text, translation, analysis (the most important piece is the colophon of the prototype of the Jaisalmer MS which was copied by the scribe of the present MS)
5-16 3. Concordance of the manuscripts and of HTr
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18-30
18-22
B SILĀNKA AND HIS WORK 1. The author: examination of all the references to writers of the name " Silanka"
(Silänka, author of the C, wrote his work in samvat 925, and was probably not identical with Silānka the author of the Acāra -and Sūtrakta - Tika) The grammar of SC (list of forms not found in Pischel's Prakrit Grammar, and
remarks on the syntax) 3. The style of SC (parallelismus membrorum etc.) 4. Silänka as a poet (different types of verbal style in SC and elaborations of the text
by Silānka) CSC AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY
(summary and conclusions ) *Introductory remarks *Comparison of the "main versions" (I) : HTr and SC
22-25 25-29
29-30
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