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INTRODUCTION
view Islim Shāh or Salīin Shah (original name, Jalal khan) who succeeded Sher Shah of the Sur dynasty and ruled as the emperor of Delhi froin 1545 to 1554 during the absence of Humáyun. This king is mentioned in Candrakirtis Com, on the Saragvatat grammar and at the end of a Ms., Sružvakvocira Dohaka ( at Delhi), of which I have seen a transcript. On the first page we have the following sentence in a different hand: 4 घरमदास चौधरी जिहानाबादमधे जैस्यपुराम तेरापंथ्यकै चैताले पधराई मि, भादवा सुक्ल १३ सं १८०१.
La. This is a paper Ms. (13 by 5 inches) belonging to Sri Lakşnuisena Bhattīraka of Kultiapur (Regd. No. 50 in the list of the Matha). It has 262 folios written on boti: the sides excepting the first and the last pages wbich are blauk. Euch page hus nine lines with some fortyfive letters or so in each line. The Prakrit text is accompanied by the Sanskrit commentary of Subhacandra.. The writing in fairly good but for the typical scribal errors noted below. It is written in a tolerably fair Devanāgari hand; the first thirtythree and the last seven folios whow a different hand of slightly perpendiculitr and rough style. It is written in black ink on indigenous paper. Tho gāthas are scored with red pencil or powder and marginal lines and dandas are in red ink. In this Ms. non is written as n and 099 #, and ch and oth nre often conti:sed. The copyist has not properly read the Ms. in which some of these letters nud close similarity for one who does not understand the subtle differences between them. The punctuations in the commentary are not regularly put. A folio, No, 256, is missing; and in the middle sowe folios, though numbered correctly, ure misplaced Beginning with the symbol of Ware the Mopens thus | El SHCHATHI Ty Po leto. After the yasesti of Subhacandra, there is the following colophon at the end : TI 969%
i et Wit ब्राह्मण प्राणसुबहतेन ।। श्रावक पन्नालाल ॥ पूज्य श्रीशनिश्येन मुनि महाराजुकीदान दस ।
Mo: This belongs to the Terāpanthi Mundirs, Bombay, and bears the No. 98, the earlier No. being 58/3. The paper shows signs of decay, and the edges of folios are broken here and there. It measures 12 by 5.2 inches, The script is Devanagari with the use of rulinātri here and there. It has the Prikrit text, and in between the lines the Sanskrit obaya is written, The opening words for the gāthas are: et T1127: and for the chiya are:
et 79. The Ms, ends thus? se pitam ITT ATH: 1 974U स्मृतेर्वशात् यत्र लिखितं कूटं तच्छोय बुधपुंगवैः १ । संवत् १६३५ जेष्ठ बदी ८ भौमे लिखतं ।
S: This is a paper Ms. from Lucknow belonging to Sri Digumbara Jaina Mandiru there and received through Sheth Suntootel Sacerachand
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1) S. K. BELVALKAR: Systems of Sanskrå Grimmar, p. 98.
