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Alankara, Samgita and Natya
1 325.
and in a sound condition ; some portion of the text on folios 3 and 4* blotted out owing to the sticking of paper; corners of some folios moth-eaten; folios 15, 16, 17 and 18 contain diagrams; folio 22a has a broad margin, about of the page being quite blank; folios 24 to 28a have a blank margin in the middle ; folios 22 to 34 which give TAS and Bars etc. have 314 vertically written columns; Missing folios:-68, 69, 70, 74, and 75, 101, 102, 103, 112 and 119. Moth-eaten and damaged folios are:- 82, 84, 83, 81, 87, 103 102 112 101, 99, 98, 97, 96, 97, 73, 72, 94, 92, 91, 90, 89, 87, 86, 68, 69, 70, 74, 119, 78, 79 etc. missing folios are present in fragments only, some having their numbers, others with the numbers lost in the moth-eaten portions; the Ms from folio 100 onwards appears to be in tact.
Folio 127 torn at the bottom ; folios 153 to 169, 185, 201, 214, 221, 239, 241, 243, 247, 295, moth-eaten partially; colophons of the seven chapters of the work will be found on folios as under:
Chapters
folio 64
FETTET
this is not traced owing to damage to folios. 122 auteurs 138 TOTETTO
169 MITETTO | 223 allegro 298 TTER
VII
Age.-- Samvat 1689 (= A. D. 1633 ). Author.- Sarngadeva (between A. D. 1210 and A. D. 1247 ). See
IA-XLI-p. 159; Keith HSL, p. 466.
Subject. --- Music.
