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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The top of this leaf exactly lits in with the end of une
of the leaves of the manuscript, which have found their way to St. Petersburg ; so that our first sixteen lines meet with their complement there, partially at least. I have thought not to exceed the reserve, imposed upon me by the very courtesy with which my loarned colleague and friend M. d'Oldenbury placed his documents at my disposal, by adding any copy of the versepieces which bave been joined to our own fragments; both of them form an inseparable whole. I have taken care to enclose within brackets what are thus borrowed from the St. Petersburg fragment.
1
yo cutiu veti satvana ?vati ca" -[sana' budhu atimaśarira tam aho bromi bramana o]
Cf. Dhammap., 419.
a. It is not possible to distinguish a priori the 1 from
the l in our manuscript. We might as well read redi. Yet the present appears to me here much more probable than the past, and I should be more disposed to admit that the reading of the Dhammapada proceeds from some old confusion, based, perhaps, exactly on the similarity of those two characters. Of the letter which I have replaced by a sign of interrogation, the bottom of the stroke only remains. It has no significant hook permitting of reading it as n in order to represent uvarati, the upapatli of the Pali. At all events, I be ieré that the last letter, though the vowel stroke may be a little clipped, bears well the nota
tion of i, 6. M. d'Oldenburg transcribes the beginning of leis
fragment as [80rrasuna, In the facsimile, there is nothing but the end, of which the reading sunn is surely possible, but not certain, so much the less because it is dillicult to scollow this form sarrasam would be relate to the forin suurcanuh, gurugu which the Pali permits us to expect. On the othor haud. with this reading, at syllable is wanting for the metre, and the facesinile, 10 at certainly, permits as to think that a mall picct of we leaf indloopped between the
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