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Berar ). I examined it on the spot during my visit to that place in 1927. This Ms. was got copied at her own cost by a lady ancestor of the famous Chaware family of Käranjā and presented by her to the Bhattāraka 'of the temple. It is dated Wednesday the 8th of the dark half of Kārtika of 1591 of the Samvat era, i. e., 1534 A.D. As I could not secure it for full collation, I prepared some trial collations from it, but as they did not reveal any difference in the variants other than those found in MBP, I dropped the idea of incorporating them in my apparatus. The two other Mss. belong to the Deccan College collection, now deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Insitute, Poona. One of them bears No. 1140 of 1891-96. It is incomplete and carelessly written. It contains the first 19 samdhis only, and is dated the 5th day of the bright half of Jyestha of 1848 of the Samvat era, i. e., 1791 A. D. I made some trial collations from this Ms. but found the variants agreeing with those of M BP and hence did not collate it further. The other Ms. from the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute bears No. 1139 of 1891–95. It is dated Wednesday, the 10th of the bright half of Phalguna of 1925 of the Samvat era. i. e., 1868 A. D. This Ms. consists of three parts written in three different hands and on two different kinds of paper. The first part consists of 142 lea ves and contains the text of the first sixteen samdhis. The second part contains 177 leaves which are numbered from 1 to 177, and not from 143. The third part contains the remaining 33 pages, numbered from 178, but written by a different person. I made some trial collations from this Ms. also, but did not find variants different from those found in MBP, and hence did not collate it further. This Ms. puts dots at places where the writer was unable to decipher his original either because it was illegible or damaged. Besides, these last named Mss. are considerably modern and could, on that account too, be ignored.
By far the most important aid for fixing the text and preparing the critical apparatus was obtained from the Tippana of Prabhācandra ( T in the Critical Apparatus ). I secured a Ms. of this Tippaņa on the Adipurāņa portion from the Deccan College collection, now deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, which bears No. 563 of 1876-77. This Ms, measure: 131" x 54", has 51 leaves, with 13 lines to a page and 45 letters to a line. The script used is peculiar in that words like fasily are written like featu. There is no indication as to its age. but from appearance it seems to belong to the 16th century A. D. It begins :—38 TAI TATTI 11 storey att fagare संस्तुतं निरस्तदोष वृषभं महोदयम् । पदार्थसंदिग्धजनप्रबोधकं महापुराणस्य करोमि टिप्पणम ॥१॥ सिद्धीत्यादि fafara de afa: # Terra Alta T5314: It ends:--- fa aferererhafe
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