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same in oral tradition. He rightly contends that, though the name of the scribe or the age of the Ms. is not given, we can infer from the Patasähi-nāmāvali given at the end of the Ms. that it was copied down some time after V. S. 1407 1351 A.D.) in the reign of king Peroja, i.e., Pheroz eshah of Delhi who came to the throne in that year.
(2) Prabandha-pañcaśati, also called Pañcasati-prabodha-sambandha and Kathakośa, by Subhasilaganin, disciple of Laksmisă garasūri of the Tapagaccha. Composed in V. S. 1521 (=1465 A.D.), it consists of 600 stories divided into four chapters. It is being published by Muni Mrgendravijayaji of Surat. The present editor happened to see a few printed formes of the work lying with Dr. U. P. Shah, Dy. Director and General Editor and Head of the Rāmāyaṇa Department, Oriental Institute, Baroda, and found that prabandha no. 97 (PP. 54-55) was the Siddhi-huldhi-raulāṇi-prabandha. It relates the story in greater details. A comparative study of the three versions of this prabandha is furnished in the following table:
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