Nayakumarchariu

Author(s): Pushpadant, Hiralal Jain
Publisher: Balatkaragana Jain Publication Society

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NAYAKUMĀRACARIU
The MS agrees in its peculiarities with A and bears glosses like it on the margin. But it has all those additional lines that are found in E. These are mostly given in the margin. It even gives a few lines peculiar to it alone.
MS. E. This MS is deposited in Bāba Dulicand's Bhāndāra in Jaipur and belongs to that section of the collection which was acquired from Sangāner Bhāndāra. Leaves 55 ; size 1042" 4'4" ; lines per page vary from 13 to 15; letters per line about 35. It bears the following colophon :
सं. १५१९ जेष्ठ वदि १२ चंद्रे ॥ आदौ ॥ जेष्ट सुदि ५ ॥ गुरौ संपूर्णं भवत् ॥ वागर देसे । झुंझुणूग्रामनगा श्रीआदीश्वरवरचैत्यालये । सरस्वतीगच्छे श्रीमूलसंधे लंवेचू वुढेले गोत्रे लिखितं पंडित सा. महराज चौधरी TI. qaga | ATI I RUTETTOTT etc.
From this we learn that the MS. was begun on the 12th of the dark fortnight and completed on the 5th of the bright fortnight of Jyestha in Samvat 1519, equivalent to 1462 A. D.. in the Adiśvara temple at Jhunjhunu in Vāgara country, by one Pandit Mahārāja Caudlari son of Bhisama, of Vud hele family of Lamvecu caste.
This MS. is the most interesting of all, as it is the oldest and has many features that distinguish it from the rest.
1. It has ut instead of a throughout. 2. It shows a great partiality for in preference to T in the absolute forms
and the seventh case-ending e. g. arcía, gioia, fala, Ha etc. 3. It frequently avoids the insertion of y or a between two vowels unlike
all the other MSS, e g. 737U for Tur; T&Tit for yaa. It omits the author's prasasti which all the other MSS. give at the end,
and like C, bears no glosses on the margin. 5. Where its readings differ from the constituted text, it agrees more fre
quently with C than the others. 6. It has many lines which are not found in ABC and are added in D only
in the margin.
From the description of the MSS. given above, it will be seen that they are fairely representative of the manuscript-tradition of Ņāyakumāracariu over a very wide area. Of the four MSS. nentioning their place of copying, one comes from Gujrāt, another from Gwāliar (Central India), the third from Punjab and the forth from Rājaputänā. They fall into two groups, AB and CE, D forming a link between the two, agreeing with the former in orthography and the glosses, with E in the matter of additional lines and frequently agreeing with this or that in its readnigs.
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