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PREFACE
portion and that too in an abridged manner. The scribe seems to have deliberately tried to avoid portions from the long commentaries on Sūtras for the sake of brevity, and therefore, one is often disappointed to witness the absence of examples given by Mk. Despite all this, the Ms. is useful in certain aspects. It has less scribal errors as compared to other Mss. consulted by me and mostly tallies with the Vizagapatam edition. It begins with the Sữ. 'Siddham Pāṇinyādeh', the earlier portion being evidently lost.
B--This stands for the Vizagapatam edition by BHATTANATHASVAMI. The book is of the later publication of 1927 and belongs to the Kanika Library, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack.
G-This stands for the transcript of Ms. No. 15662 of the Government Oriental Mss. Library, Madras. It is an old paper Ms. consisting of 152 pages and written in Telugu character. The transcript of the Ms, which I possess is in Devanāgari character.
0—This stands for the microfilm copy of Ms. Wilson 1585 of Bodleian Library, Oxford.
I–This stands for the microfilm copy of Mackenzie Ms. No. 70 of India Office Library, London. At the colophon the scribe declares himself to be Govindadasa by name who copied it during night time and completed copying on monday:
__ “रात्रैलिखितं नित्यं समाप्तं चंद्रवासरे । गोविन्ददासेन लिखितमिदं पुस्तकम् ॥"
U—This stands for the Ms. No. 52 of the Utkal University Library. It is a palm-leaf Ms. written in Oriya character which was donated to the Library by the late Dr. KARUNAKAR KAR. It has also been entirely copied by me and I possess the copy with me. The scribe gives the exact date of completing the copying in the autumn of Yugābda 4917 corresponding to 1817 A. C. The passage referred to runs thus :
"युगाब्दे मुनिचन्द्राङ्कयुगेऽतीते शरदृतौ ।
समाप्तं पुस्तकमिदं प्राकृतप्रक्रियात्मकम् ॥" It is interesting to note that the Kanika Library of Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, contains in Ms. form a descriptive list of Sans
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