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verses (I. 65*1, 123*2-3, II. 46*1, 111*2-4 and 137*5) he comments on possibly considering them to be useful to the readers; but he does not include them in his text, because they are not numbered with other dohas. We do not know the exact extent of the inflated text that was before Brahmadeva; but it is imaginable that it contained many more verses which Brahmadeva could not include in his either interpolatory group.
B, C and S Based on Brahmadeva's Text-Mss. B, C and S (see section IV below) do not represent any Independent text-tradition at all; they are various attempts to copy out only dohas of P-prakata from Mss. containing the text and Brahmadeva's commentary. When one is copying out only the verses from a crowded Ms. with text and commentary closely written, varlous. errors are likely to be committed; first, due to want of sufficient attentiveness and consequently due to the difficulty of spotting out the text from the body of commentary (for instance II. 104, 167 in B); secondly, due to haplographical deception, i.e., when two when two verses begin with similar words either one is missed (for instance II. 16 in B and II. 15 in C), or they interchange their places (for instance II. 64 & 65 and 79 & 80 in C); and so on. Then there will arise some cases of conscious omission: if a verse is in a different dialect (for instance 11. 60 B, S and C, II, 111*2-3 in B & C), or if it is called Praksepaka, etc., by the commentator (for instance I. 65*1 in B, C & S. II. 137*5 In B, II, 111*2-4 in S). These are not in any way hard and fast rules, but they merely indicate how verses are likely to be dropped by copyists. Then the apparent additions in these Mss. (akkharada, etc., after II. 84 in B, C & S visayaha karani, etc., after II. 134 in B & C, and jiva jiņavara, etc,, after II. 197 in C alone) are all found to be quotations in Brahmadeva's commentary in those places; It means that the copylst mistook these quotations, especially the first two being in Apabh., for the text of P.-prakata. The manner in which our Mss. are written is mainly responsible for such errors. Of these three, S is much carelessly copied, and hence so many verses are omitted but added in the margin possibly by the same copyist at the time of revision.
Bālacandra's Text-Maladhare Balacandra has written a Kannada commentary on P.-prakasa which is represented by Ms. P described below. At the outset he plainly tells us that he has consulted the Sk. Vrtti of Brahmadeva. Balacandra's text has six additional verses not found in Brahmadeva's text. As Balacandra admits his indebtedness to Brahmadeva and still shows these additional verses there are two alternatives: either Brahmadeva's text along with the commentary is pruned further after Balacandra, or Balacandra had before him a longer text and quite consciously he retained some more verses, though his Kannada commentary was based on Brahmadeva's Sk
1 Generally Balacandra follows the analysis of Brahmadava. In the second Adhikara,
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