Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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tains the complete text of the so-called Telinga-recension.
For Weber's use a transcript in the Roman script was made of T together with TC (see below) by S. Goldschmidt, who also prepared a complete wordindex of the text: This transcript is kept in the same library, numbered MS or. quart. 706. Lit.: Verzeichniss...(ABC 20, 2), nos 1598 and 1600; Ed., p. XXX-XXXII; .. A classified Index to the Sanskrit MSS in the Palace at Tanjore, by A. C. Burnell, London, 1880 (ABC 306), p. 1740; Retr., p. 347.
b. MSS containing the Prākrit text as well as a Sanskrit commentary: Bh,
K, B, P, W and S.
Bh Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS or. quart. 743. MS or. quart. 743, consisting of 122 pages, contains extracts made in 1881-82 by Weber from a MS sent to him by F. Kielhorn from Poona. This original is at present included in the collection of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Poona, as no. 245 of 1880-81. This MS, which is undated, consisting of 71 folios, with 17 lines to a page, each line having 46 to 48 Akşaras, contains the text together with a Sanskrit commentary. The script is Jaina Nāgart. The text is incomplete (1-600); the order of the Gathās is that of the so-called Jaina-recension. The commentary, styled Chekoktivicāraltlā, is by Bhuvanapala. Parts of the text repeated in the commentary are designated with the siglum Bho. Where clear distinction is necessary the text proper is designated Bho. Lit.: Verzeichniss...(ABC 20, 2), no. 1597; ISt., p. 1ff.; Report on the Search for Sanskrit MSS in the Bombay Presidency during the years 188081, Bombay, 1881 (ABC 273, 1), no. 245 (p. 65).
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS or. quart. 740 (pp. 1-136). MS or. quart. 740 contains on pp. 1-136 a copy in the Roman script prepared by Weber of an original MS belonging to F. E. Hall. This original, of which the present whereabouts are unknown, consists of 48 folios with the text (1 to 6 lines) in the middle and the Sanskrit commentary (3 to 4 lines) above and below the text. Each line has 55 Akşaras. The script