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341.)
C-Nafya
443
Description.- Country paper; Devanagari characters; clear and
legible hand-writing; borders marked with double red lines; colophons of chapters smeared with red ink so also certain words to mark them out ; hand-writing not uniform throughout; the last folio, viz. 260 contains a picture of Sivalinga in the middle of the page ; yellow pigment used for corrections; borders of folios 68 to 79 (both inclusive ) not marked with double red lines ; folio 8o blank; folio 176 numbered twice ; folios 168 and 169 together; folio 79almost blank. No. 337 and the present Ms appear to have been copied from the same original. This fact in proved by identcal omissions in both the copies, for instance the portion of the original left out on folio 694 ot No. 337 has also been left out in the present Ms on folio 79 and the blank folio 80.
No colophons have been recorded for chapters X, XVIII, XXI, XXIX and XXXII. Chapters XX, XXVIII and XXXI have been doubly numbered as is clear from the colophons. With the exception of the double numbering of chapters XXXI, which is to be found in the present Ms, the remaining cases of omissions and double numbering are identical with those found in No. 337. The total number of chapters is 36 only as in the case
of No. 337Age. - Samvat 1930. No. 337 which is dated Samvat 1931 and
this Ms appear to have been copied from the same original.
Author.- Attributed to Bharata.
Subject.-Dramaturgy and allied topics (see remarks on No. 337). Begins.--
“ 3 THT SOUSTTT FTA: 11 प्रणम्य शिरसा देवौ पितामहमहेश्वरौ ॥ नाट्यशास्त्रं प्रवक्ष्यामि ब्रह्मणा यदुदाहृतं ॥१॥ समाप्तजयं व्रतिनस्वसुतैः परिवारितं ॥ अनध्याये कदाचित्तं भरतं नाट्यकोविदं ॥२॥
