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the writing is fairly correct. The manuscript is in the form of a modern book, with a margin of one inch to three-fourths of an inch with a double line of border in red ink on all sides. The same ink is used to denote the beginning and the end of the different Chapters, as also to show the beginning and the conclusion of the anushtubhs, their pūdas, and of sentences. No date is given. The author is not knuwn. It begins with a table of contents. Like ‘G' it has only Chapters XXXV to L. The manuscript itself seems to be a modern copy of an older manuscript The page 'la' has the words “ Mūnava-Silpa” as the title of the work, though in Bhandarkar's report the name is given as
“Mūnava-sūra-vūstu-śāstra. (I) This belongs to the Government Oriental Library, Madras.
It is referred to in Aufrecht, part II, page 104. It is written in cursive Grantha character on European paper and bound in size 13" by 8". It consists of 495 pages, each of which contains 18 lines. It retains all the chapters of the Mūnasura in their proper order with a few exceptions. The copyist gives his name as Loka
nātha Śāstri. The date of transcription is not given. (J) This belongs to the Government of Madras. It is referred
to in Aufrecht, part I, page 452, and in Taylor I, 71, no. 1987. It consists of 12 Cadjan (palm) leaves of une size 12!" by 13". Each page contains 8 lines. It is written in Grantha character. Neither the date of the manuscript nor the name of the copyist is given. Many leaves are missing and more are so injured that it is impossible to make out the contents. The last page contains in the middle the colophon of Chapter XLVII. The comparison has to be given up after a few lines of Chapter XLVI (Torana).
