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Pravacanasära
the commentary of Amstacandra. The colophon, which gives the date of the MS., runs thus in red ink:
इति तत्त्वदीपिका नाम प्रवचनसारवृत्तिः समाप्ता ॥ * ॥ शुभं भवतु मंगलं महा श्री देयाद्विद्या परमेश्वरी ॥ * ॥ श्रीः ॥ अथ संवत्सरे श्रीविक्रमादित्यगताब्दाः संवत् ॥ १४९७॥ वर्ष ज्येष्ठ सुदि १३ ॥ शनिवासरे श्री टोडामहादुर्गे॥श्री मूलसंधे बलात्कारगणे सरस्वतीगच्छे भट्टारकश्रीपद्मनंदिदेवा तत्पट्टे भट्टारकश्रीशुभचंद्रदेवाः गुरुभ्राता श्रीमवनदेवास्तत्सिष्य ब्रह्मनरसिंह तत्पुस्तकात् मया सुंदरलालेन लिपिकृता इंदोरमध्ये स्वपठनार्थ ः संवत् १९३० ॥ श्री ॥ श्रीरस्तु ॥ कल्याणमस्तु लेखकपाठकयोः 1 st 1 st 1 A: 11 It can be very easily detected from this colophon that the present MS. is written in Samvat 1930, at Indore, by Sundaralala from a MS., belonging to Brahma Narasimha, which appears to have been written at SFIETSTAZIONI (ant?) in Samvat 1497. Sundaralāla says that he copied it for his study; that indicates that he might be knowing Sanskrit, though the language of the colophon is not a piece of good Sanskrit; at any rate, it must be said to his credit that Sundarlāla is a faithful copyist. P_-It belongs to Sri Ailaka Pannālāla D. Jaina Sarasvati Bhavana,
Bombay 4; it is numbered as 1370/309. It is a paper MS. oblong in size, measuring 12 by 62 inches. There are 43 leaves; and the MS., for all appearance, is complete. It contains the text and the Sanskrit commentary of Prabhācandra. The MS. is lately copied in Bombay, in Samvat 1981, from a MS. written in Samvat 1555. The MS. is not carefully written; especially in the beginning portion, the copyist is not able to read correctly the MS. from which he is copying, and which possibly appears to have been written in that padima tra system. Especially the Prakrit portion is very faulty. There is a good deal of disorder, especially in the third book, in the numbering and order of gāthās: one is not in a position to say whether the copyist is responsible for this, or more possibly, as the gaps in the middle indicate, the MS., from which this copy is made, was not in a good condition.
As one interested in the well-being of that institution, I have to request the authorities of Srī Ailaka Pannālāla Sarasvati Bhavana to employ intelligent copyists to prepare MSS. for the institution; otherwise carelessly written MSS. would defeat the very aim of the
institution. C_This Ms. belongs to the Balātkāragana Mandira, Karanja, No. 768. It has 178 folios, 10 by 65 inches in size. Each page
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