Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 1

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
work, as Bühler pointed out, is valuable on account of the numerous quotations found in the second and third chapters, which are in all cases accompanied by the name of the author, and which consequently enable us to fix a terminus ad quem for more than one poet in whose case such a limit was a desideratum. The three chapters, or vinyâsas, into which the book is divided, are called respectively (1) Vrittâ vachaya, (2) Gunadoshadarśanam, and (3) Vrittaviniyoga. The vfittas or turns—it is curious to note, in passing, how closely vřitta and verse correspond to each other in meaning-enumerated in the first vinyasa are as follows: (1) tanumadhyâ, (2) kumâralalitâ, (3) vidyunmâlâ, (4) pramânî, (5) anashtubh, (6) bhujagagraśiśassita, * (7) rukmavati, (8) indravajrâ, (9) apendravajrâ, (10) upajati, (11) sålini, (12) rathoddhatâ, (13) svâgatâ, (14) toțakam, (15) varśastham,t (16) drutavilambitam, (17) prabar
My MS. of the Suvşittatilaka was not bought for Government : but was presented to me by my friend, Pandit Durga Prasada. In the comparatively few cases in which MSS. have thus been put at my disposal, I have gone on the rule of making over to the collection all MSS. that are new, or more correct than copies already there. Others I have felt at liberty to retain.
* Bhujagågraśiśusrità, MS., Bhujagågråsisusrita. The word takes this form to suit the metre. The more common form appears in the example:
न नमति चरणौ भन्या किमिति जडमतिर्लोकः। भवभयशमनौ शंभो
(जगशिगुस्तावग्रे॥ The example shows that this metre ended, according to Kshemendra, in three long syllables, the scheme being uuuuuu--- repeated four times, and not uuuuuu-uu as Weber, Ind. Stud. 8, 170, followed by the St. Petersburg Dictionary, has it. Colebrooke, Essays I., 141, gives Kshemendra's scheme.
+ The expression in the rule, vamsasthåkhyam leaves us in doubt whether the word is vamsastha, or vamsasthà. Colebrooke writes it with the short vowel : Weber with the long. The St. Petersburg Dictionary intimates a doubt. Kshemendra's example :
जनस्य तीव्रातपजातिवारणा जयंति संत: सतत समुन्नताः। सितातपत्रप्रतिमा विभांति ये
विशालवंशस्थतया गुणोचिताः॥ makes for the short syllable. In the case of the example from Bana in the second vinyasa, cited further on, the metre is called vamsastham (ie, vrittam). See also p. 11.