Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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End (pp. 282-283):
daravevirorujaalāsu(!) laṁliakesāsu mauliachisu purusdirtsu kāmo piāsu samjāuho vasai.
This text is followed by the Chāyā and a long commentary, which on p. 283 is concluded as follows:
iti vādikavicūļāmaŋ imahopādhyāyaśrīmanmādhavayajvamiśraviracitāyās hālasaptaśatitātparyaţTkāyāṁ saptaman śatakaṁ sampūrnań.
The title-page contains the following information (p. 1):
śrth, hala-saptaśatt-tātparyaţTkā pādi(:)kavicūdāmaņimahopādhyāyaśrTmanmādhavayajvamiśraviracitā. dvitTyasatake ekanavatitamagātham arabhya saptaśatakāntam. lekhakaḥ: (e)n anantakrsnaśarmā
In Malayā]am the following particulars have been added:
Owner of the MS: Ettumānūr Kailasapurattu Pişāroţi. Copying commissioned by: the same. Script (of the original): Malayalam. Material: palmleaf. Date of completion of the copy: August the 8th of 10 )0 (Kolam Era, probably 1914 A.D.). Signature of the scribe. Date of payment of the scribe (not filled in!)
Ti is a Devanagari transcript of 283 pages of an original MS written in the Malayalam script. It contains the text of the Third South-Indian recension from 197 to the end. The text is accompanied by a Sanskrit commentary attributed to Madhavayajvamiśra. The Gathās have not been numbered. The text is divided into Satakas. The conclusion of each śataka has been indicated after the commentary to its final Gathā: iti hālasaptaśatstātparyaţikāyās dvitTyan (trtTyam, etc.) śataka sampūrņam.