Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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161-186 (the commentary on 341 on p. 161.); 400-405 are found on pp. 157-160; 406-474 (end) on p. 190 ff. On p. 158 is found the indication of the end of the fourth Sataka, after 333 Gathās (by counting). That this state of the text is due to the disturbance of the leaves of the original -- which were not numbered -- appears from the fact that precisely opposite the respective breaking-points in the margin a number is found indicating the end of a leaf and the beginning of a new one.
At the beginning of this main part a transcript has been added of eleven pages, the original of which must have been very badly damaged, for only part of the text could be recovered. It contains fragments of the text of Gathās 2-10 of the Third South-Indian recension, with parts of a commentary upon them. No part of Gathā 1 of the recension is found. According to a note it was not copied until 1923. No particulars regarding the original are given, but most likely it was the same MS which served as the basis for the main part of the transcript. Possibly copying of the beginning was postponed because of the difficulties encountered in deciphering the text. Lit.: A triennial Catalogue of MSS collected during the Triennium 1916/ 17-1918/19 for the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Vol. IV lb, Madras, 1928 (ABC 201, 4, 1b), no. 3378.
Ti Trivandrum, University Manuscripts Library, no. 4763. Beginning (p. 2):
Śrt, halasaptaśatftātparyaţTkā
(lacuna)janasankule pi tuha dañsanan ti(!) magganti ramne va bhamai dimght pava(!)rāide anupingā, cha - sundarayuvanjanasankule pi tava darśanam vimārganti
aranya iva (bhrāmyati omitted) drstir varākyā anudvigneti. ramne va aranya iva, varāiāe varākyā, aņupingā anudvignā aganitaparivādabhayetyarthaḥ, utsavas amājādveva(?) kāmayamānayor mithodarśanam iti prāgeva darsitaṁ, parakTyās vadhire(?)pragalbheyam, upamālankāraḥ.