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www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
.?, so as to give us a complete Prnkrit counterpart of the Påli verse 30.quoted in the last page. Thus we were tempted to place l' imm liately after .1 and complete the Prakrit verse, by linking together 1", 17 and A’, 1, as follows :
pramnenn makabla devamsumidli(i) gat]u
apramarla prasajhati pramadı garahitu sada o We felt further justified by the fact that, for the commencement of the first foot, we had in A", 17 exactly two letters, a pra, answering to the two dots of omissions in A', 1, and for the last letter of the second frot, we had u in A", 17, answering to a dot of omission in 4”, I. Proceeding to test the result of this prelimi. nary examination, we had to satisfy ourselves whether the proposed inversion of M. Senart's Plates and could justify the unreconcile colophons "ga 23" (at the end of Plate A';, and " ga 30" (in the middle of Plate A"), which indicated that the four plates, arranged by M. Senart in the order A', A?, A3 A', contained two groups of Dhammapada verses, one consisting of 25 stanzas, and another of 30 stanzas. It was indeed a very happy moment when we found that hy completely reversing M. Senart's order the verses and the four plates could be systematically arranged in two groups or chapters, consistently with the colophons "ga 30" and "ga ? "- procedure ensuring a logical sequence of thonght in the teaching of the groups and the verses alike. Taking our cue herefrom, we have made bold to dispute the whole arrangement of M. Senart's edition, wbich leaves colophons unexplainel. Nay, we have rentured to reconstruct a number of hopelessly inntilated verses, particularly those at the end of Plat B, and to adjust and readjust a host of fragments and verses, testing almost every case in the light of A Pāli or a Sanskrit parallel; and the results of our investigation have been embodied in the following pages, to he judge for what they are worth.
.. The title “Prakrit Dhammapada".-M. Senart's ndition, entitled I Manuscrit Klarosthi du Dhammapada" is
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