Gyanpramodika

Author(s): Gyanpramod Gani, R S Betai, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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3. "a"-aztenfo-g. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. No.
Size: 25x12cms.; writing space 20.5 cms.
Extent 78 folios; thirteen lines to page and 43 letters to line; claimed to be complete, but it actually starts with the last sentence of the Vṛtti on 2.22. The Catalogue of the ms. notes this fact though it states that the verse is 2,21.
Description Thick country paper, large and very legible letters; sticking of gum. between pages has taken its toll in erasing writing at so many places; ms. seems to have been rarely used; quality of paper very good and shining; faults many.
Age: Not known because colophon of copyist not given; seems not old. Starts with the last part of the last sentence of Vrtti on 2.22. मः विपरीतविधाने कमलनं यथा मुक्त्वा कृतस्नान इत्यादि, सुगमम् ।
Begins
the
Ends Ends with the last of the 21 verses in the author's colophon in which Vṛtiikära gives details of his line of preceptors and ends with the reference to the writing of the प्रथमादर्श सनन्दिजयः गुणनन्दनमणिरलिखयमादर्श प्रयत्नेन
A Probability: As mentioned earlier, the ms. 9, starts with the last sentence of the Vṛtti on 2.2. As we go through the ms., we find that (a) folios 1, 2, 3 have their numbering in usual size of letters; (b) the Vetti on the second Pariccheda ends in third line of folio 3-b; (c) folios 4 to 8 are numbered in very small letters at the fag end, (d) folios 9 to 78 are numbered in letters of usual size. All this probably indicates that, as the copyist came to the end of the Vrtti on the second Pariccheda, he seems to have noticed though rather late, that the Vṛtti on 1.1 to 2.22 of que is not available in his model copy. He might have noped and even tried to find these folios as he wrote further. He therefore gave the numbers of folios 4 to 8 in very smal letters to be replaced by numbering in letters of usual size. Then, perhaps on losing hope of finding the missing folios, ne proceeded to give the following numbers in the usual size of letters.
-fagfe"-a, L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad.
No. 26179
Size 26x12 Cms.; writing space 21 cms.
Extent: 65 folios; 1 and 65 on one sile; 17 lines to page and 45 letters to line.