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end. The characters are Devanagari with some lines in red and some in black ink in the major part of it; and some pages at the end are written in black ink alone. The appearance of the Ms. shows that it is badly handled. The first 8 leaves are lost; a dozen leaves at the end are halftorn; and the letters on many pages in the middle are rubbed away and cannot be read. As to the contents of this whole Ms.; Folios 9-10 : Bhaktamarastotra of Manatunga; ff. 10-13: Laghu-svayambhū of Devanandi: ff. 13-16 : Bhavandbantisi, i.e., Dvåtrimfika of Amitagati; ff. 16-18: Balabhadra svami-raüvi (? in old Hindi); ff. 18-20 Śrutabhakti; ff. 20-35 : Tattvarthasūtru (only sūtras, with some marginal corrections in Kannada characters): ff. 35-62; enumerative lists of Margaņā sthānas etc. and some notes from Gommatasara etc.; ff. 63-81; Dõhåpahuda of Yogendra; ff. 81-111: Paramatma-prakasa (only dohās): ff. (page Nos. are rubbed away) padikkammami and some Bhaktis; ff. 128-135 (?): Aradhanäsåra of Devasena (Text only); ff. 136-139: Yogabhakti; ff. 139-148 : Jinasahasranama of Āsādhara; then Sajjanacittavallabha etc. This Ms. is at least 200 years old. It is fairly accurate excepting for a few scribal errors. Here and there it retains n forn, but this is ignored in recording the readings. As seen above ff. 81-111 are occupied by the text of Paramåtma-prakaša. The opening verse is cidanandaika etc., the same as the opening mangala of Brahmadeva's commentary, in place of the first doha, and it is numbered as one. Differences in the strength of the text have been recorded along with the various readings. In the middle there has been some confusion about the numbers, though the total number of dohas is shown as 342 at the end. Especially in this portion some pages are bored by worms; many letters have lost their ink; and many pages are rubbed away and the letters cannot be made out. It closes with the phrase :
इति परमात्मप्रकाशः समाप्त: ॥ ॥ शुभमस्तु ।
C. Described-This is a paper Ms., about 11 by 4.5 inches in size, numbered as 1446 of 1886-92 from the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. It contains 21 loose folios written on both sides, each page containing about 9 lines. It is written in neat Devanagari hand. It contains only dohās; the first two pages are crowded with interlinear and marginal notes giving the Sk chaya of difficult words. The Ms. is fairly accurate, but the copyist has not been able to read his adarsa correctly : paru is once represented by pattu and once by yattu: u and o are interchanged, and there is a good deal of confusion about the presence or otherwise of the sign of anusvara. In some places there are discrepancies of vowels. Differences in the number of dohās are noted in the various readings. The Ms. ends thus : इति श्रीपरमात्मप्रकाश]दोहा समाप्त ।।। शुभं भवतु ।। संवत् १७०५ वर्ष आसाडवदि १२ बुधवासरे ।।
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