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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[CHAPTER VII
himself. Probably there is another example of this kind in the slika verse 850 (p. 65), which adds a pharmacopoeic direction to the preceding formula, consisting of the two Alika verses 848 and 849.
in contrast with the treatise in Part II, the two treatises contained in Parts I and III are very different productions. Phey do not profess to be compilations from preexisting sources, but rather suggest themselves to be original compositions, For, with a few exceptions, such as verses 105, 129, 131 in Part I, and verses 25-36, 37-53, 55, 56, in Part III, they contain nothing that either professes to be, or can be shown to be, a quotation from some earlier work. They may, in fact, very well be original compositions of the same author as he who compiled the Nâvanitaka.
The case is rather different with the treatises on divination and incantation which are contained in Parts IV-VII of the Bower Manuscript. There is nothing in the character of the composition which is distinctly in popular Sanskrit, that would point to an author more intimately conversant with scholastic Sanskrit. A considerabla portion of the treatises is written in prose, and whatever is in metrical form, is written entirely in the easy álóka mcasure. Part VII, or at least the surviving fragment of it, is written entirely in prose; and the only portion that is metrical in Part VI is the charm made of seventeen verses (pp. 224, 225). On the other hand, Part V is written entirely in verse, and so is also Part IV, with the 'exception of its five introductory lines (p. 192) which are in prose,
