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INTRODUCTION
CRITICAL APPARATUS
The Text of Mahapurapa or Tisatthimahapurisagupalamkara of Puspadanta in this Volume is based upon three Mss. designated K, A and P which are fully collated. Occasional help for the purpose of settling the text was also derived from the Tippapa of Prabhacandra. I give below the full description of this material -
(1) K. This Ms. is fully described in my Introduction to Vol. I on pages xi and xii. The Uttarapurapa portion begins on leaf No 289 of this Ms. As this Ms was found to contain the older of the two recensions of the Adipurana with corrections to accord with the other recension, I have relied upon it for the constitution of the text in this Volume. It is to be regretted that no Ms. corresponding to Ms. G of the Adipurana Mss. could be discovered for this Volume. I may say here that the No. of the Uttarapurapa Mss known to me is much smaller than those of the Adipurapa.
(2) A. This Ms was obtained for me by Professor Hiralal Jain of the King Edward College, Amraoti, from Master Motilal Sanghi Jain, Sanmati Pustakalaya, Jaipur. It consists of 423 leaves measuring 13 inches by 5 inches with 11 lines to a page and about 40 letters to a line. This Ms presents in its original form a recension as in P, but seems to have been corrected to another recension no longer available to me with the result that the variants recorded are those of the corrected recension. The Ms further seems to have been made up of (a) leaves of the original Ms of which a few were lost, and (b) of leaves newly added to make up the lost portion and written in a different hand. This hypothesis of mine is supported by reference to Folio No 383-384 which leaves half the page blank in order that the matter should run on with the first syllable on Folio No 385 of the original part. The pages so substituted have nine lines to a page and about 38 letters to a line. That this Ms. presents a recension different from those of K and P is clear from the fact that it contains Prasasti Stanzas 46, 47 and 48 (See Introduction to Vol I, page xxvii) which are not common to any other Ms of the Uttarapuraņa. The Ms begins: ॐ नमो वीतरागाय । बंभहो बंभालयसामियहो and ends : इय महापुराणे तिसट्ठिमहापुरिसगुणालंकारे महाकरपुप्फयतविरइए महामन्वभर हाणुमण्णिए महाकवे दुउत्तरसयमो परिच्छेओ समत्तो ॥ संधि ॥ १०२ ॥ इति उत्तरपुराणं समाप्ता ॥ शुभमस्तु ॥ कल्याणमस्तु ॥ संवत् १६१५ वर्षे मानदि ६ शुक्रवासरे उत्तरपुराणं समाएं || नाईटोपनायें ज्ञानावणी कम्पार्थ संख्या | १२००० ॥
This last page however is not the original page of the Ms but is newly written. According to this colophon the Ms is dated Friday, the 6th day of the month of Magha (Feb.-March) of the Samvat year 1615, corresponding to 1558 A. D.
(3) P. This is Ms No 1106 of 1884-87 of the Deccan College Collection, now deposited in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. It has 681 leaves. measuring 11 inches by 4 inches with 8 lines to a page and 33 letters to a line. It is dated the full moon day of the month of Bhadrapada (Aug.-Sept.) of the samvat year 1630 corresponding to 1573 A. D. The last page of the Ms, is damaged and hence it
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