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script; and the copyist rightly understood the needs of Apabhramśa phonetics, and added this sign closely imitating the sign of anusvåra in Devanāgari.
I have no doubt that this Ms. is copied from a Devanagari Ms. aining the text and the commentary of Brahmadeva; and further possibly by the same copyist it is revised with the help of Kannada Mss., some predecessor of our P containing Maladhāri Balacandra's commentary and some Mss. of TKM-group.
As compared with our text the following dohās are missing in this Ms.: I. 33-4, I. 65*1, I. 117, II. 20, II. 60. II. 62, II. 111*2-4, II. 178, II. 180, II. 199; but all these verses are added in the marginal space possibly. by the same copyist. There is only one additional verse (akkharada etc.) after II. 84 which is serially numbered. Then some additional verses are found in the marginal space : on p. 155, two verses (kayakisest" etc. and appasaháva etc.) possibly after II. 36; then two verses (pavēna naraya etc. and bhabbábhabbaha etc.) possibly after II. 62; on p. 158 two verses( visayaha kärane etc. and pamca na etc.) and lastly on p. 159 one dohā (appaha paraha etc.).
The Ms. is concluded with the words 'Yogindragāthe samāptaḥ
T. Described This is a palm-leaf Ms., about 17.5 by 2 inches in size, from Sri-Vira-vāni-vilasa-bhavana, Müdabidri, South Kanara. It contains 8 folios written on both sides, and on the second page of the 8th leaf Ms K, which is described below, begins. There are 9 lines on each page with about 75 to 80 letters in each line. As usual in palm-leaf Mss. We have two string-holes with unwritten space squaring them. These spaces divide the written leaf into three distinct portions. It is written in OldKannada characters, and contains only the dohās of Paramātma prakāša. The Ms. is carefully inscrited, the letters being uniformly shaped. The edges of leaves are come-what broken here and there, though the Ms., on the whole, is well preserved. In a few places, not more than three or four, there are blank spaces for individual letters whenever the copyist has not followed his aduisa. The opening phrase is sri Sāntinathāya namah, and then the dohās follow.
K. Described- This is a palm-leaf Ms., about 17.5 by 2 inches in size, from Sri Viravāni-vilāsa-bhavana, Müdabidri, South Kanara. It covers leaves 8 to 36, the first 8 leaves being occupied by Ms. T which is described above. This Ms. begins on the second page of the 8th leaf; it ends on the second page of the 36th leaf; and after that we have a few Sanskrit verses written in a different hand. In general appearance, the number of lines etc., K closely agrees with T. The edges of leaves have become smoky, and are broken here and there. From the similarity in hand-writing it is clear that I ard K are written by one and the same person. It is plain from
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