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syllable is required in the place of the long one in 'ra'. We do not know if his peculiarities and attempts at striking new rhythms are really an indication of his capacity for invention or in fact his metrical shortcomings. X. Commentaries on the MRA :
Two Tippana commentaries have been published along with the text of the MRA printed herewith. One of them, printed in square brackets, is by an anonymous author, while the other is by Pandit Becbardas Jaivaraj Doshi, a wellknown scholar of Gujarat. The text of both these commenta. ries is printed by way of foot-notes running parallel to the text of the MRA.
(a) The Anonymous Tippaņa-T (A):
The Tifpana by the anonymous author is found in one of the Mss. of the MRA, and is of the nature of marginal notes mostly written on the borders of the pages. It might have been written by some Jain preceptor probably at the tinie of teaching the work to his disciple, none of whom has unfortunately recorded the event at the close of the Ms. As can be seen from the text of the T(A), these marginal notes begin with the elaboration of the implications of the word 'Pratibhädi-(p. 4, vs. 9) and leaves the paronmastic features of all the preceding verses unexplained. It is, thus, too scanty to be sufficiently useful for an average student to properly understand the text of the MRA.
(b) Pandit Bechardasa's Tippana-T(D)
It is all to the credit of Pandit Bechardas J. Doshi that out of kind consideration for the students of Sanskrit literature, he has himself undertaken the task of composing a fresh Tippana commentary. The copiousness of his notes, as can be seen from the text of the T(D), really deserves the bonour of a commentary comparable to, and in the established tradition of, the Sanketa of Sankara on Bana's Harşacaritam. Being of the nature of notes, 1ather than continuous explanation, it is confined by the author to a well defined scope of affording bare explanation of difficult portions of the text. Even then, the author of the commentary has done a great service of regene. rating the interest in the text and, thus provided an invaluable instrument for a proper study of the work as a whole. The importance of Pandit Bechardasa's work can be realized when one compares his explanations with those offered by the anonymous commentator, in respect of a few notable instances, as for instance, the elucidation of haaga ' (p. 18, ft, nt, 5), of 'Raha Hanafaalfa*:' (p. 21, ft. nt. 2), of the passage i = faaal#ra...F7627:' (p. 29, ft. nts. 1,2 and p. 30, ft. nt. 1), of the passage 'afi asitha...maaf 1912etah (p. 38, ft. nt. 4), and so on. In many
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