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MAHĀPURANA
( Found at the beginning of the thiry-third samdhi. It is also found at the beginning of the fortieth samadhi of the Uttarapurana in Poona and Jaipore Mss., but is missing in K). 32. (xxiv) fa af f*4uTaFTET I
मातुं च वाघितोयं चुलुकैः कस्यास्ति सामर्थ्यम् । (Found at the beginning of the thirty-fifth samdhi).
It will thus be seen that the MBP group of Mss. which I fully collated for my work and at least three more Mss., one from Sepa Gana Bhandara at Káranja and two from Poona, contain as many as twenty-four more stanzas at exactly the same point in the Adipurāņa portion. Some of these are repeated in some Mss. of the Uttarapu rána, no doubt, still the evidence strongly supports me to group them together. The variants in the text that they give justify the above view.
The above conclusion led me to see if similar groups of Mss. existed for the Uttarapurăņa also. Unfortunately the number of the available Mss. of the Uttarapurāna is very small, viz., four. Of these one is my K, the second comes from the Bhandarkar Institute, Poona, the third from Jaipore and the fourth from the Balātkāra Gana Bhandara at Kāranjā. On examination I found that Poona and Kāranja Mss. agree in putting certain stanzas at a place, particularly those four that are given at the beginning of the 50th samdhi, while K omits these very stanzas there and the Jaipore Ms. distributes them over four different samdhis from 50th on wards. I give below these stanzas with their location in the four Mss. mentioned above. (c) 33. (i) 777 StarTataaraffaughs
यदपि च जलधिवलयमधिलंध्य विधेस्तदन्तरं दिशः । विगलितजलपयोवपटलद्युति कथमिदमन्यथा यशः
प्रसरदमादमल्लकदनाभारत भुवि भरत सांप्रतम् ॥ (Found in the Poona and Karanja Mss, at the beginning of the 41st and the 47th samdhis. The Jaipore Ms. has it only at the 41st. K does not give it anywhere ).
भास्वानेककलावतोऽस्य च भवेद्यन्नाम तन्मङ्गलं
Euro Tag: #fach a (?) : 1 राहः केतुरयं द्विषामिति दधत्साम्यं ग्रहाणां प्रभुः
tay ( ? ) atafa Hea: eu auf: 11 (Found in the Poona and Karanja Mss. at the beginning of the 50th along with two following and fi FR EF# etc. (see stanza 5 above). The Jaipore Ms. gives this stanza alone at the 50th, and K does not give it anywhere ).
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