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use of Prsthamátrás is noticed. The Ms. is decorated with thick red lines indicating the margin and there are three dots in red ink of the size of a fouranna silver coin, two in margins and one in the centre of the page where a square blank space is left. It seems that these dots represont the holes of a palm leaf Ms. from which this Ms. may have been copied. I secured this Ms. through my friend and pupil, Professor A. N. Upadhye of the Rajaram College, Kolhapur, who obtained it from his friend Mr. Tatyasaheb Patil of Nandni, near Kolhapur. It begins :- 1 of 1 fazia 11 fafaagithu etc., and the Adipurāņa portion ends :-54 WETECTU farafgaeryfTHJUTASAITO Helegaciaविरइए महाभब्वभरहाणुमण्णिए महाकव्वे सगणहररिसहनाहभरहणिग्वाणगमणं णाम सत्ततीसमो परिच्छेउ Hall 315900 TH II. It adds in a difforent hand : Ho stractCÈ HO EATचंद्रास्तत्पट्टे भ० ज्ञानभूषणास्तत्पट्टे भ० श्रीप्रभाचंद्राणां पुस्तकं ॥ The Uttarapurana. portion ends :-इय महापुराणे तिसट्टिमहापुरिसगुणालंकारे महाभन्वभरहाणुमण्णिए महाकव्वे वीरजिणिदणिन्वाणTHU TH ATH49f1agului AgigTruf HA II E IL P E UT POooo ( ? ) 11 T* 496 11 We find on the final blank leaf :- 0 Atarac Vo fattatrace Ho श्रीज्ञानभूषणास्तत्पट्टे भ. श्रीप्रभाचंद्राणां पुस्तकं ॥ It adds further in a different hand : भ. श्रीवादिचंद्रास्तत्पद्रेभ. श्रीमहीचंद्रास्तत्पडेभ. श्रीमेरुचंद्राणां पुस्तकं ॥
The entire work seems to be written in one hand; in fact this is the only Ms. of the whole of the Mahāpurapa, i. e., Adipurāpa and Uttarapurāņa, written in one hand, that I have so far discovered. This Ms. seems to preserve the text as in G described above, but seems to be corrected to the version represented by the M B P group of M88., in a different hand. This Ms. thus represents a mixed text. It is however easy to decipher what the original reading might have been. The gloss in the margin is more copious than in the Tippapa of Prabhācandra, (for whicb see below). There is no indication of the age of the Ms. although its original, probably a palm-leaf Ms., represents the older of the two recensions of our text. The corrections made therein to make it agree with a later recension of our text represented by the MBP group are made in a different hand, perhaps after about three generations of monks who owned it.
3. M. This Ms. consists of 470 leaves measuring 11" x 41". It has 8 lines to a page and about 33 letters to a line. It is written in Mathura, in 1883 of the Samvat era, i. e. in 1826 A. D. It is written in good modern hand and has some gloss in the margin, but not so copious as in K. or in the Tippana of Prabhācandra. It belongs to the Deccan College Collection, now deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, and bears No. 1050 of 1887-91. It begins : - atat 11 fefe EHTETIT etc. and ends : इय महापुराणे तिसट्टिमहापुरिसगुणालंकारे महाकइपुप्फयंतविरइए महाभन्बभरहाणुमण्णिए महाकव्वे सगण
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