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copied ; there are therefore very few copying mistakes. No continuous serial numbering for the verses is given, but the verses within each group (Paddhati) are serially numbered. The Ms. breaks off after the word लडहत्तण in the fourth verse of the स्त्रीरूपवर्णनपद्धति.
Over and above the fourteen folios of the text, we find two extra folios, one of which contains a complete list of contents of the whole manuscript. This folio, though unnumbered, seems to be in the same hand as the folios of the text proper. The list is reproduced below with the serial number added to the Paddhatis.
Accordingly, out of a total of 58 Paddhatis and 850 verses, we have in the preserved portion 14 Paddhatis (the 14th being incomplete) and 249 verses? (the last verse being incomplete).
The second extra folio has its portion at the right hand upper corner missing; hence the numbering on the back side is lost. On examination it turns out to be a folio belonging to another Ms. of GM. The obverse side begins with fefe aus' which exactly corresponds with the beginning of the 10th folio of our Ms., and the five letters are the final letters of verse no. 8 of the Varşapaddhati. But in the stray folio the verse is numbered as the 14th. The remaining verses of the group in this folio, from the 15th to the 17th, exactly correspond to the Varşāpaddati verses no. 16 to 28 in our Ms. This fact indicates that the different Mss. of the GM. recension varied in matter of the arrangement of verses within a group
Although the number of Paddhatis contained in S and GM (60 and 58 respectively) is roughfly the same, only 30 titles are common between the two recensions. Our guide in drawing this conclusion is the GM. list of contents. Also, the number of verses, their selection and ordering within the groups that are common, show so much variation between the two recensions (judging. of course, from the available portion of the GM.) that we must recognise them as two distinct recensions. Although GM. had S before it, it shows a high degree of independence in its classification as well as in its selection and ordering for each group. Of the 249 verses
