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script; and the copyist rightly understood the needs of Apabhramsa 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. containing 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 Maladhari 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, 1. 117, II. 20, II. 60, II, 62, II, 111*2-4, II. 178, II.
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 num bered. Then some additional verses are found in the marginal space on P. 155, two verses (kayakilasa" etc. and appasahava etc.) possibly after II. 36; then two verses (pavčna naraya etc. and bhabbabhabbaha etc.) possibly after II. 62; on p. 158 two verses( visayaha karane etc, and pamca na etc.) and lastly on p. 159 one dohā (appaha paraha etc.).
The Ms, is concluded with the words 'Yogindragäthe samaptak
T. Described This is a palm-leaf Ms, about 17.5 by 2 inches in size, from Śri-Vira-vā ņi-vilāsa-bhavana, Mūdabidri, 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 Paramäima prakaša. The Ms. is carefully inscribed, the letters being uniformly shaped. The edges of leaves are some-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 adciša. The opening phrase is sri Santinăthaya naman, and then the dohās follow.
K. Described-This is a palm-leaf Ms., about 17.5 by 2 inches in size, from Sri Viravāņi-vilāsa-bhavana, Mūdabidri, 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 T and K are written by one and the same person. It is plain from
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