Gahakoso Part 1

Author(s): Satvahan, Madhav Vasudev Patvardhan, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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PREFACE
Work on the present edition of Hala's Gahakosa (Gathakosa or Gathasaptasati) was undertaken by me in 1972, at the instance of the Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad, as a part of the Society's plan to bring out new editions of ancient Prakrit literary works. It was decided by the Society that the Prakrit text of Hala's Gāhākosa with Bhuvanapala's Sanskrit Commentary (not printed so far) should be published on the same lines as the Vajjalagga published by the Society in 1969. The Prakrit Text Society feels happy in placing in the hands of scholars Part I of Hala's Gāhākosa with the Sanskrit Commentary of Bhuvanapala and importtant variants from Prof. Weber's text of the Saptasatakam of Hala (Leipzig, Germany, 1881). The Roman figures with the letter W prefixed to them in the margin of the text of the gathās indicate the numbers of the gathās in Weber's edition of 1881, Part II will contain an Introduction, translation, alphabetical index of the gathās, explanatory notes and glossary of important words occurring in the gathās.
For the present edition the following published and manuscript material has been used.
(1) Prof. Weber's editions of Hala's Saptasatakam, Leipzig 1870 and 1881.
(2) Prof. A. Weber's two long articles on the Saptasataka of Hāla published in Vols. 26 (1872) and 28 (1874) of ZDMG.
(3) Prof. A. Weber's monograph on Bhuvanpalas commentary on the Saptasataka, published with introduction, various indices and a concordance on pp. 1-204 of Indische Studien, Vol, 16, 1883.
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(4) Deccan College (Poona) manuscript No. 245 of 1880-1881 (used by Weber for his monograph mentioned above) and now deposited in the Bhandarkar Institute, Poona.