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Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. Their ption is as follows:
MS. A
It bears the No. 617/36 of 1875–76, written in good handwriting and appears as if printed. It contains 75 pages. Only first three pages have in the middle the space for the thread and not in any other page. The edges are brittle, the paper also shows signs of earlier age, and now and then Padimatras are used in its writing. The Ms. begins with 37 THT STATTTIG" in red ink. Number of Kadavakas and Dandas (11) are also written in neat hand-writing in black ink, somewhere a half line also is bru hed by white ink. The explanation of any word is not written in the margin on any page. Every page has 11 lines and last 75th one has only 6 lines Every line contains 38 to 44 letters except Dandas (11) and no. of Kadavakas. MS. 8
It bears the No. 1009 of 1887-91. It is written in black ink and not red ink is used anywhere. One, two letters or 1/4, 1/2 or a line is brushed by white or black ink It is written not in very good hand-writing Every page contains 8 lines, but some have 9 lines also. Every line has 28 to 32 letters excepting Dandas and No of Kadavakas. The Ms. has 138 folios. Page No. 137 is partly broken and folio No. 4 is missing. We find the explanation of words etc... with the sign in the mirgin on the top, bottom, right or left side in Sanskrit. It has unwritten space on folios 56a, 57, 69 and 69a, with gaps in the text. This is comparatively modern Ms. as indicated by the paper and hand-writing. It bears a date Samvat 1595 written by different person in different hand-writing on the last page which indicates that the Ms. is older than this date.
Both the Mss. together supply the complete text. They are quite independent and not the copies of each other. We find that the first Ms. is more correct and hence it is treated as an ideal one for our editing work. However, the second Ms. has been utilized for deciding the recentons. While editing we have followed the following method :1. F is made ut, as 677, TUTATEMI etc. 2. a fora, as faceri atfestgot etc.
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