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.
yanivallabhadeva. In the last line of his commentary to the present work, which he there speaks of, not as the Vakroktipanchasikâ, but, by a play on the author's name, as the Vakroktivarnanam Ratnam, Vallabhadeva, styles his father, Anandadeva, the sun in the firma ment of battle.'
सूनुरानन्ददेवस्य रणभूयोनि भास्वतः।
वक्रोक्तिवर्णने राने टिप्पणं वल्लभोव्यधात् । The Vakroktipanchâsika itself is a collection of crooked sayings' in the form of short dialogues between Siva and Parvati of the kind with which the Mudrarakshasa opens. Examples will be found in the extracts at the end of this Report.
Bühler found in Kashmir a complete Rudrata's Kávyálarákara
copy of a work called Kavyalamkârn, with the commentary of Nami.
which a comparison with a fragment pre
viously obtained from Jesalmir, proved to be by Rudrata, the author of the “Sringâratilaka, which has been known for a long time, and which has been published by Professor Stenzler as an Appendix to the Meghadûta.”* The Jesalmir fragment (adhyâyas 3—5) is accompanied by a commentary whose author's name Bühler gave as Svetîmbara. Among the palm-leaf manuscripts procured for Government in 1880 by the enterprising and intelligent agent for this scarch, Mr. Bhagvandas Kevaldas, is a second complete copy of Rudrata's Kavgalamkâra, with a commentary, also complete, by Nami.t No. 159 of the works included in the present Report is the same work as the palm-leaf MS. But it has not previously been noticed that the Nami of the palm-leaf MS. and the Svetâmbara of the Jesalmir fragment are one and the same person. In the colophons appcnded to the various adhyâyas of the palm-lcaf MS. Nami describes himself, or is described, variously, as Svetabhikshunami (adhyâya 1), Svetamvaranami (adhyâyas 2, 4 and 6), Namisådhu (ndhyâyas 7, 9, 14, 15), Sadhunami (adhyâya 8), Panditanami (adhyâya 13). The colophons of the 3rd, 5th, 10th, 11th, and 12th adhyâyas in that JS. aro incomplete. In my copy of the work, which is a Kashmir MS. obtained at Jeypore, the author of the commentry is described as follows:-Namisådhu (adhyâyas 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), Syctâmvaranami (adhyâya 2), Svetâmbaraśrînami (adhyâya 3), Sriśvctâm
* Kashmir Report, p. 67. + Dr. Kielhorn's Report, p. 34.