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प्राकृतसर्वस्वम्।
krit Mss. searched by an itinerant scholar appointed by the then Bihar and Orissa Research Society. The report contains the description of a palm-leaf Ms. of PS, the owner of which is said to be Pandit SADASIVA MISRA of Puri. Evidently this was the same Ms. which GRIERSON has mentiond to have been lent to him by Pandit SADASIVA MISRA of Puri. What is more curious to note is that the description as given in the list exactly tallies with the writings in the Ms. of the Utkal University. The verse of the scribe regarding the date of the completion of writing as cited above has been quoted in the report - a fact which gives ample proof that the two Mss. are one and the same. But it is not known how the Ms. was acquired by Dr. Kar who donated the same to the Utkal University. On my personal enquiry Dr. KAR could not remember anything as to the acquisition of the Ms. by him. He might have got it from Pandit SadAsIVA MISRA. Dr. Kar was for a good long time Principal of Sadasiva Sanskrit College, Puri, which is named after Pandit SADASIVA MISRA.
However, almost all the Mss. materials which was handled by GRIERSON is in my possession in addition to the Ms. of Govt. Oriental Mss. Library, Madras.
3. Evaluation of Mss.
Of the six texts thus described for critically editing PS, the Vizagapatam edition is by far the best. Excepting the four Sūtras of the 17th Pada which are supposed to be missing and which too are traced in none of the Mss., this edition contains the complete text, and the Sūtras are numbered and printed in an orderly manper so as to suit the arrangement of the metre in which all the Sūtras are set. This edition, though not free from errors and doubtful readings, has been allthrough a guiding work for me in deciphering the difficult and illegible lines of Mss. The editor in a number of doubtful places has put query marks, against the words or the passages concerned without attempting to suggest any
2. See B, pp. 114-15, I have supplied Būs. 21 and 22 after comparing the grammars of Purusottama and Rāmatarman.
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