Book Title: Kuvalayamala Part 2
Author(s): Udyotansuri, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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________________ KUVALAYAMĀLA Í FAT GITTIS II TCH AE etc. It ends thus: Fara Fantarar FTA FT || 3 || İTHGUT AEA II 80000 Il fat [:] nitaarvaru atrudiTTET STUTETT [:] 11 J 11 11 The above number of the granthāgra is written after covering the original writing with yellow paste. There is no record here of the age of the Ms., but according to expert opinion this Ms. may be assigned to the 15th century A.D. and is thus slightly more than four hundred years old. The copyist of this Ms. has often confused between y and dh, ņ and l: perhaps he or his predecessor has not carefully read the ādarsaprati. He numbers serially only a few verses at the beginning. He consistently uses paļimātrā or prşthamātrā, though here and there e and o show the topstrokes. His jja looks like dya and is read by some as jya. The letters ch and cch are not duly distinguished by him. Though there are many scribal slips and usual lapses, the copyist has a neat hand throughout. He distinguishes his u and o, with a dot or stroke on the top of the latter. In orthography, this Ms. is more inclined to the use of ya-sruti, though there are cases where it is not used (printed text p. 4, line 8: raïā, but in the next line raïyā). It has some cases of inorganic t as well. On the whole very often it uses n initially and in a conjunct group, though there are cases of initial ņ and of nn. It uses anusvāra almost as a rule and not parasavarna. In a few cases, m is used generally at the end of a line or so. Conjunct groups like cch, jjh and tth are written even after an anusvāra. In Sanskrit passages, in the conjunct groups with r as the second member, the other consonant is written double (the developing partner unaspirated with the aspirated remnant). In this volume are included the drawing of the select akşaras of this Ms. as well as the block-prints of the photographs of its two pages Nos. 1b and 133 b. The page 35 a is reproduced by F.B.J. KUIPER in his paper The Paiśācī fragment of the Kuvalayamālā', Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. I - 1957 - NR 3. J - This is a palm-leaf Ms. of the Kuvalayamālā belonging to the Big Bhandāra at Jaisalmer. It contains 254 leaves, each leaf measuring 58.5 by 6.4 cms. The breadth noted is obviously at the centre of the widest leaf, because it decreases at some corner or the other and varies from leaf to leaf. Muni Sri JINAVIJAYAJI placed at my disposal 54 photographs each measuring 29.3 by 24.2 cms. put on mounts 39.4 by 31.8 cms. and containing some ten pages (of one side of the leaf or the other) of the palm-leaves. While arranging the leaves for photographing, a few pages are repeated in different plates. In this lot are included the photographs of the wooden boards of the Candra-prajñapti and Bhagavatīvrtti and of some of the leaves of the Vilāsavatī-kathā. The palm-leaves Nos. 1 and 254 1 C. D. DALAL and L. B. GANDHI: A Catalogue of Mss. in the Jain Bhandars at Jesalmere, p. 27, also Intro. p. 42, G. O. S. XXI, Baroda 1923. 2 There is a set of photographs also in this Oriental Institute, Baroda. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org


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