Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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At the beginning of the MS a group of four Gāthās is found which occur again as 374-377 (see also Tp). Gathā 279 is missing (cf. Tp). Of some Gāthas the text is missing due to lacunae in the original (577, 595, 596, 606; cf. Tp). Lit.: Alphabetical Index of the Sanskrit MSS in the University Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, Vol. I, Trivandrum, 1957 (ABC 316), no. 4763; A descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS in the Curator's Office Library, . Trivandrum, Vol. VI, Trivandrum, 1940 (ABC 312, 6), no. 1439.
Tp Trivandrum, University Manuscripts Library, no. 4758. Beginning (1"):
ganapaino namo,
tam namaha ekkadasanam jo vaanek(!)ellavās aditthena sohai munālakabane (corr. into le)ņa via(!)dasaņuggame (rest of Gathā lost through damage).
End (36"):
daravevirorujualāsu luliakesāsu mauliacchTsu
purusāirtsu kāmo piāsu sajjāuho vasai. ŚrT ia.
Tp is a palmleaf MS of 36 leaves measuring 14 by 2 1/4 inches, with 8 lines to a page and 50 Akşaras to a line. The leaves have been numbered with letters. The script is Malayālam. In this MS the Gathās have not been numbered. It contains the complete text of the Gathās of the socalled Third South-Indian recension (1-699; 272 and 694 are missing). The text is divided into seven Satakas. The end of each Sataka has been indicated as follows:
śrt, ia hālakai(also kavi)viraiāņaṁ (for āe) sattas atņa (for Te) puţhamam (vtam, tiam...chatthan; for the seventh Sataka, see above) saań sampunnar, śrt.