Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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5.4 The Second Telinga-recension (W)
In Weber's material the so-called Second Telinga-recension is represented by two MSS, the one written in Grantha (W), the other in the Telugu script (V). The former contains the text of the Gathas accompanied by a Sanskrit commentary; the latter contains a Sanskrit Chaya only. The beginning of W, comprising the first ten Gathas, was illegible.
The recension is markedly different from the other known recensions in that it contains only approximately 100 Gathas, namely 102 in W and 104 in V. The text bears various names. In W is is called PrakṛtaśṛngāraSataka and in V Prakṛtasataka. Yet another name seems to have been current. In Upadhye's edition of this recension it bears the title SaptaSatisara.23 In this latter edition the commentary, which probably is the same as the one found in W, is attributed to a certain Vema Bhupala. This Vema Bhupala has been identified with a Reddi king of that name who ruled from 1403 to 1420 at Kondavidu in Andhra (Krishnamachariar, 1970: 479; Sriramamurti, 1972: 68-69).
As already said above (5.1). Weber suggested that the Second Telingarecension is possibly an independent anthology, having been compiled independently of the recensions of the. Sattasai. This would, among other things, appear from the fact that the compiler apparently had no intention to create a 'sevenhundred'. The best proof for the assumption that the Second Telinga-recension originated independently of the other known recensions of the Sattasaf, would be to be able to show that there was another source from which the compiler drew the Gathas. In this connection it should be noted that a considerable number of Gathas (17) are also among those Weber collected from the Alamkarasastras (see Abh., p. 202 ff.; collectively labelled 'A' here) (7, 15, 19, 39, 66, 68, 76, 83, 85, 87, 93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102) and some even exclusively so (68, 93, 99, 101). In some instances the readings agree more closely to the latter. E.g. 875 anaddamana W and A (+Sanskrit; anollamana T), 860 dūna W, düni A (+Sanskrit; domia T), 939 nimiliaamh W, milia A (pimiam T), 951 kaccT a W, kattT a A (kattTo T).
From whatever source or sources the compiler of the Second Telingarecension drew the Gathas, most of these also occur in the available recensions of the SattasaT. A relatively large number of them otherwise