Ganittilakam Savrtuttikam

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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INTRODUCTION
Simhaklaka has refered to some work on p. 85 1.6, but I ⚫ am not at present in a position to ascertain it.
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Now I shall say a few words about the critical apparatus used in the preparation of this edition of Ganitatilaka along with the commentary. It is based upon a single palmyra Ms. written in bold and legible Jaina Devanagari characters with prsthamatras. It consists of 172+21-23-171 leaves. Of course the last two leaves which are blank are not counted here; otherwise the total number of leaves comes to 173. The size of these leaves varies from 13" by 1. 4" to 14.9" by 1.5".
Every leaf is numbered twice, once in the margin to the right, in ordinary figures, etc., except that 9 is in the Jaina style and once in the margin to the left, in letter-numerals" such as श्री}, श्री}, र्स्क, र्टं, फ्रु, श्री, हो, जं, र्ल, र्थ, र्ला, र्त, C, र्थु for 2,3 ctc.
2;
Excepting the leaves 1 and 172" which are blank, the rest are written in black ink on both sides with 4 lines, each containing 52 to 57 letters. Leaves 60 and 61" are practically illegible, owing to their being smutty.
This Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been divided in two columns but it is not so; for, a line of the Ist column extends to the second. Each of these columns is bounded by three lines in black ink. A string runs through the space between the two columns.
This Ms. is placed between two wooden boards sufficiently strong, durable and 15.4" by 1.8" in size.
1 I am led to believe that there is no other Ms. of this work available elsewhere, for, I have received up till now no reply in connection with inquiry made by me in my article "A note on S'ripati and his Ganitatilaka" published in "The Indian Historical Quarterly" (Vol. VIII, No. 2, p. 351).
2 The leaf 103rd appears to be repeated, but really speaking the 104th leaf is wrongly numbered as 103rd, the following hence numbered as 104, 105 etc. 3 Leaves 37th and 64th are lacking.
4 In spite of this I think, the present work is incomplete.
5 For full details of the method of expressing numbers by letters, the reader is referred to Dr. F. Kielhorn's Report on Sanskrit Mss. published at Bombay in A. D. 1881 and also to Pandit Bhagvanlal Indraji's article published in Indian Antiquary vol VI, p. 42. He may also refer to my Appendices III-IV published in the Descriptive Catalogue of Jaina Manuscripts (Govt. collections vol. XVII, pt. II).