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Introduction
this difference in a satisfactory manner; but we can try to gauge the amount of genuineness behind this group. It appears to me that there is some genuine tradition behind TKM-group for the following reasons : first, the Kannada K-gloss which accompanies this Shorter Recension is independent of Brahmadeva and perhaps earlier than his Commentary; secondly, not even by mistake a single verse called interpolatory by Brahmadeva is accepted by this group; thirdly, this Shorter Recension contains two more verses not recorded by Brahmadeva and not even by Bālacandra; and lastly, an alternative reading noted by Brahmadeva is practically identical with the reading preserved in TKM-group; in II. 143 Brahmadeva accepts the reading Jinu samiü sammattu and records a variant sivasagamu sammattu, the reading in TKM-group being siü sangaü sammattu. This means that there is an amount of texttradition behind this group, though this should not be taken to mean in any way the justification of the absence of so many verses in TKM-group.
An Objective Scrutiny of the so-called Interpolatory Verses-In a work like P.-prakāśa which is full of repetitions, and which is explicitly meant to be so by the author himself (II. 241), it is very difficult to detect an interpolatory verse on such criteria that it does not suit the context, etc. P.-prakaša is written in Apabh. dialect, but it contains seven verses which are not in Apabh., namely, I. 65*1, II. 60,1 111*3, 117, 213, 214. We can understand the change of dialect in II. 213-14, which are concluding verses written in high-flowing Vrttas. 2 Of the remaining five Brahmadeva considers three to be interpolatory : 1. 65*1 is a slight improvement on Bhāvapähuda 47 from which source it must have been taken here. II. 60 and 117 are not called interpolatory by Brahmadeva, and especially because TKM-group preserves them it is possible that they were included in P.-prakasa from a pretty long time, and perhaps by the author himself. Beyond this dialectal approach, there is no other objective standard that can be applied to this text with the material that is available to us.
General Nature of the Verses Left by TKM-Group and the Net Effect :- The contents of verses absent in TKM-group deserve careful scrutiny, and I shall make a modest attempt to detect certain underlying tendencies. We may not take into account those verses which are called interpolatory by Brahmadeva and are not found in TKM as well. More than once Brahmadeva mentions the name of Bhatta Prabhākara to whom, as the text itself admits (II. 211), P.-prakasa was addressed; but by the absence of
1 With II. 60 compare Tiloyapannatti (Sholapur 1951) IX. 52. I feel like presuming that
Joindu is indebted to Yati Vrşabha; and to suit the tone of his work, he has put
the last expression in the first person. 2 II. 213 is Sragdhara and II. 214 Malint; II. 174 is called Catuspädika by Brahmadeva,
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