Kalpadru Kosh Vol 01

Author(s): Kesava, Ramavatara Sarma
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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KALPADRUKOSA
me with the Baroda MS of the book which is referred to as B in the footnotes, and has kindly included my edition of it in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. These three MSS are complete and very valuable. The Baroda MS differs from the other two in omitting a few verses from the last or Lingānuśāsana chapter of the book. The South India MSS appear to be incomplete. That mentioned in the catalogue of the Madras Government Oriental collections begins after the 1st Skandha. Pt. Gaurinātha gave me another copy prepared by Pandit Śivadatta himself. But this, based only on a single MS, and necessarily full of faulty readings, has not been of much use to me. Very rarely it is referred to in the footnotes as S. Recently Pt. Ganapati Šāstrin sent me word through Mr. Manoranjan Ghosh that - he had found out a MS of the Kalpadru. But owing to the sudden death of the Šāstrin I could not secure the MS from him.
I have to thank the gentlemen named above for the help I have received from them and also my Research scholar Tārāpada Chowdhury, M.A., one of my students who has chiefly worked on the Introduction. I am also much indebted to Dr. Zachariae's Die Indischen Wörterbücher and Dr. Winternitz’s Geschichte der Indischen Litteratur for the valuable help I got in preparing the Introduction.
PATNA,
R. ŚARMĀ.
November 30, 1927)