Prakritadhyaya

Author(s): Kramdishwar, Satyaranjan Banerjee, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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CRITICAL APPARATORS
from that of the body of the text and belongs to some other goribe of later times. Furthermore, in between the lines and also in the margin some corrections were made by a different hand: otherwise the hand-writing of this manuscript is uniform and clear. It has no marginal glosses as in other manuscripts. It does neither mention the name of the copyist, nor the date of its writing ; but judging from the general appearance of the hand-writing, the age of the manuscript might be assigned to the close of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century A.D. It is interesting to note that somebody might have used
manuscript in recent times, as some Eaglish words (although very few) are found in the margin. It omits many sūtras, orttis and words. It also indicates the sign of incorrect representation of a sūtra or vrtti by putting a cross sign (x) over the margin. This has been made, I think, by the scribe. The manuscript has 9-12 lines in & page. The Prākrit grammar runs upto the 12th folio of the manuscript, while the rest are devoted to metres and rhetorica. The first page of the folio (i.e., 1a) though originally kept blank, shows the contents of the manuscript, (probably prepared by some other hand),. which are not always correct. The brief analysis is as follows:
lb-2b=The First chapter=Svara-kāryanya nivȚttam. 2b-5b=The Second chapter=Consonants with conjuncts. 5b-7b=The Third chapter=Declension 7b-9b=The Fourth chapter=Conjugation (with Dhātvādegas). 9b-12b = The Fifth chapter=Apabhramśārambhah.
Excepting the first and the last, there is no chapter-mark. It begins with" ओं नमो गणेशाय and ends with
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चक्रपाणिसुतो ज्यायान् नप्तासौ श्रीपतेः कृती ॥ इति वादीन्द्र-चक्रचूडामणि-महापण्डित-श्रीक्रमदीश्वरकृतौ संक्षिप्तसारे महाराजाधिराज-श्रीमज्जुमर-परिशोधित-वृत्तावष्टमपादः समाप्तः । श्रीकृष्णाय नमः ।।
$ 5. O=This country-made paper manuscript, written in Bengali character, belongs to the University of Calcutta, Sanskrit Department, bearing the number 1226. It has 25 folios, 17 X 34 inches with 5 or 6 lines to a page. In the margin, Prākrit renderings of some Sanskrit words, classed as "ākrtigaņa", of the first, second and the fifth