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Prakrit and some of the modern Indian languages. The following nine versions are available in Sanskrit:
[1] The version of the Laghu-prabandha-sangraha.
[2] Vikramadityasya Pañcadaṇḍacchatra-prabandha by Pūrṇacandrasuri [early 15th cent. A.D.]. This work in Sanskrit prose was edited by A. Weber on the basis of a manuscript preserved in the British Museum, London and was published in the Philosophical and Historical Annals of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin as early as 1877 A.D. Mss. of this work are available also at the Oriental Institute, Baroda, Śrī Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñānamandira, Pātana, the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad and the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. The printed text does not bear the author's name, which, however, is supplied by the other Mss. It is throughout written in simple language and brief style. For our purpose OI Ms. no. 2376 has been referred to. Mostly written in Prsthamātrās, it consists of 8 folios; our story, however, ends in the middle of Folio no. 8".
[3] Vikrama-caritram of Upadhyaya Devamurti [c. V. S. 1471 1415 A.D. ]. This is a Sanskrit Mahakavya of 14 Sargas, Sarga IV consisting of the Pañcadanḍakatha. A Ms. of this work is preserved as no. 686; in Śri Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñanamandira, Paţa na. Throughout writter in the Anustubh metre, this work abounds in Figures of Speech and lengthy descriptions not lacking, of course, poetic merit.
[4] Vikramaditya-vikramacaritra-caritra by Subhasilaganin [V. S. 1490 1434 A.D. ]. This Sanskrit Mahākāvya in 12 Sargas is edited by Pt. Bhagavāndāsa and published in two volumes in Sri Hemacandracārya Granthamālā, Ahmedabad in 1925 A.D. The 9th Sarga consists of the Pañcadanḍacchatrakatha. It is written in simple but effective language. A Ms. of this work is available in the Oriental Institute, Baroda, its no. being 12407. For our purpose this Ms. is utilized. It comprises in all 340 folios; but our portion is narrated on folios 234 to 267. The story is related here in a brief way and long descriptions are mostly avoided.
[5] Pañcadaṇḍacchatra-prabandha of an unknown author, in Sanskrit prose [ 15th cent. A.D.]. It is written in very simple Sanskrit prose. A Ms. of this work is preserved as no. 1782 in Śri Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñāna. mandira, Pātana.
[6] Another Pancadaṇḍacchatra-prabandha of unknown authorship, in Sanskrit prose [ 15th cent. A.D.]. A Ms. of this work is preserved as no. 1780 in Sri Hemacandracārya Jaina Jñānamandira, Pāţa ņ a.
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