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a line. Margins are ruled with three red lines. The folio-numbers are written at the bottom of the right margin on the reverse of each folio. Each page has a decorative space of the shape of a sacrificial altar of thirteen padas left out in the middle, its minimum and maximum measurements being 0.3" and 1.3" respy.
There are three cases of supra lineam additions, propria manu, but there are no corrections nor any marginalia. In line 2 on folio I a space of two letters is left out since the writing on the obverse has spoiled the paper on the reverse. Erasures are indicated in ways more than one viz. by not drawing the head-line of the letter to be erased, by placing two or three vertica above the letter to be erased or the portion thereof desired to be erased. At two places a danda is erased by drawing cross-wise a black line over it. At one place the letter a is changed to a by simply writing down the latter over the former. Likewise there is a case of a written over a which latter is to be deemed as erased, and in one case the syllable u is changed to y in a similar way. At one place in the word sukhasanâdirūdhā two vertical strokes are placed above the letter di evidently to cancel it and probably to correct it to dhi, but, for one reason or another, the revised entry of dhi is not made anywhere. Final m is always written as an anusvāra and the employment of parasavarna also is mostly avoided. The letter E is generally written as q and 8 as y. The employment of the danda is quite regular.
The Pysthamātrās are resorted to in most of the cases where two mālrāstrokes have to be shown.
: Not only the colophon but also other portions of the text at haphazard intervals are lightly daubed over with red chalk.
No. 5177 is put in the middle blank space on the last page in Gujarāti script by a later hand. The left margin contains the writing 'Ra 5' in the same line as the above number, beneath which is written the word 'Dhana'. The significance of these remarks is not known. Probably these are remarks put by an owner of the Ms., no. 5177 evidently standing for the number of the Ms. in his collection.
The condition of the Ms. is gocd and the writing is legible and fairly correct.
MUTUAL RELATION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
Out of these three Mss. only G contains the full text as presented in this volume, while K and O contain only one prabandha viz. that of King M a da nabhra m a. These three Mss. do not display anything like recensions, but they
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