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.
I may here say at once that the number of desirable books offered then and subsequently to me at Oodeypore was greatly in excess of the funds at my disposal; and I should have no difficulty in procuring, on a second visit, with the consent of Government, for the use of scholars or learned institutions either here or at home, other copies of any of the books actually selected. It has not been possible to make a thorough examination of all the books bought; and I can only offer here a few remarks, chiefly by way of illustration of the passages selected for extract.
This important find, No. 260, settles, I The Chatuhsaran aprakir.
think, the question of the authorship of a nakam of Virabhadra with a coinmentary.
book in great repute among the Jain com
munity, besides raising some interesting points with regard to the authorship of others among their religious books now unhappily anonymous. The last gâthâ of the Chatuhsaranaprakîrņakam is
इय जीव पमायहारिवीर भदं तमेवज्झयणम् । झाए मुतिसंझमवझकारणं निव्वइसुहाणम् ।।
Another reading substitutes sites for it. On this the commontary, which is a very extensive one, has a note which may be concisely translated as follows :
“O my soul, study this work morning, noon, and night; it will be a very Greatheart to you to slay the enemy, which is spiritual indifference; in the end it will bring you prosperity " (bhadrantam). The words vîra bhaddam and tam the commentator goes on to say may be taken differently, vira and bhadra being construed as two vocatives, “O stout and blessed one," the effect of which is to incite the
fanatical outbarst of hate in his own city the Maharana reuored to the island itself every boat on the lake; and through all the period of suspense he kept the charge entrusted to him as the apple of his eye. For her services on that occasion-to use the official phrasc-I cannot donbt that Mewar received ample material reward. But over and above that such a deed surely descrves to be held in grateful remembrance; and in future questions arising between that State and us it may
us hope, be cast into the wavering scale.
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