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Alamkara, Samgita and Natya
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Extent.— 41 leaves ; 12 to 13 lines to a page ; 41 letters to a line (of the commentary) and 33 letters to a line ( of the text ). Description.— Country paper, thick but moth-eaten ; corners of some folios damaged and certain portions of the text thereon aiso destroyed ; Devanāgarī characters; handwriting of the text, bigger than that of the commentary; hand-writing, though legible, some what indifferently written; borders ruled with double red lines for folios I to 18; folios 19 to 41 are without any borders; decorative borders are also provided for the text portion only on folios 1 to 18.
The Kuvalayānandakārikās end on folio 38, the colophon being as under:—
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'इति श्रीमद्वैतप्रतिष्टापन धूरीणरंगजाध्वरिंद्रसूनेारप्यदीक्षितस्य कृतौ कुवलयानंदे मूलकारिकाः समाप्ताः ॥ "
The commentary corresponding to the मूलकारिकis ends also on folio 37 with the following colophon:—
“ इति श्रीपदवाक्यप्रमाणपारावारिणरामजी भट्टात्मजाशाधर भट्टविरचि तायां कुवलयानंदकारिकायामलंकारदीपिका समाप्ता ॥
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Folios 38 to 41 contain a portion of what is called in the N. S. Press edition आशाधर भट्टकृत मुद्दिष्टनामकं द्वितीयं प्रकरणम् ” This prakarana presumably added by the commentator Aśādhara consists of 21 Kärikäs with pertinent commentary. The present Ms breaks of at Kärikä 16 and is, therefore, incomplete. On folio 89 of the Pothi edition of N. S. Press appear the following two verses which clearly tell us that the उद्दिष्टालंकारप्रकरणम् was added by Asadhara:— "एते प्रमाणालंकाराः प्रकृतार्थसमर्थनात् । काव्यलिंगप्रपंचत्वमुपयांत्येव वस्तुतः ॥ १ ॥ धरणीधरपादाब्जप्रसादासादितस्मृतेः ।
आशाधरस्य वागषां तनोतु विदुषां मृदुम् ॥ २ ॥ "
Age. The Ms appears to be old.
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