Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS or. quart. 742. MS or. quart. 742, consisting of 346 pages, is a copy prepared by Weber in 1872 of no. 1750, India Office Library, London. This original consists of 124 folios of grey paper, measuring 12 by 4 3/8 inches, having 11 lines to a page. The script is Devanāgart. It is dated Samvat 1672 (1624 A.D.). S contains the complete Prakrit text (1-700) together with the Sanskrit commentary by Sadhāraṇadeva. The text, which is called Muktavalt and in which the Gathās are arranged in Vrajyās, is a specimen of the so-called Sadhāraṇadeva-recension. Lit.: Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prākrit MSS in the Library of the India Office II 2, London, 1935 (ABC 164, 2, 1), no. 7218; Verzeichniss ...(ABC 20, 2), no. 1596; Ed., pp. XXXVIII-XLI; Retr., p. 347.
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS or. quart. 590 (pp.1-49). MS or. quart. 590 (pp. 1-49, pages arranged Europeanwise, 22 lines to a page, each line containing 21 Akşaras) is a modern copy in the Telugu script, especially prepared for Weber, of no. 10287 of the Tanjore Palace Library. This original, which is written in Grantha, contains the text
ogether with an anonymous commentary, of the so-called Second Telingarecension. The first eleven Gathās of the original were illegible.
For Weber's use of the MS or. quart. 590 a copy in the Roman script was prepared by S. Goldschmidt. The transcript is kept in the same library, numbered Ms or. quart. 707. Lit.: Verzeichniss... (ABC 20, 2), nos 1601 and 1602; Ed., p. XLII; A classified Index to the Sanskrit MSS in the Palace at Tanjore, by A. C. Burnell, London, 1880 (ABC 306), p. 175.
c. MSS containing only a Sanskrit commentary or a Sanskrit Chāyā: A, C,
E, S, T, X, TC and V.
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS or. quart. 741. A is a copy of 207 pages in the Roman script prepared by Weber in 1872 of no. 944, India Office Library, London. This original consists of 96