Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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INTRODUCTION
1. Critical Apparatus The following Ms. material has been used in this editio. princeps of the Risțasamuccaya (RS):
B: This is a photo-copy of the Ms. written in Devanāgarī script revealing a predominating influence of Jaina Saurasenī Prākrit. It was procured on loan from the Oriental Institute, s Baroda. Its acc. no. is 13190 under subject “Jaina" in the Sanskrit section and its extent is 11 folios or 20 pieces. It is styled Kūlajñāna'. The original Ms. of which this photo-copy is made was written by one Muni Śrī Samudra at Medinīpura and was in possession of Pandit Sumaticandra Gaņi as is clear from 10 the last line". It is complete in 259 stanzas. Its handwriting is good and uniform throughout though there are some lacuna here and there. The copyist seems to be cautious but he has inherited, no doubt, some mistakes from the copy before him. For the most part, the scribal errors are metathetical, haplogra-is phical and orthographical. Its first page has twelve lines while all the remaining (except the last which has got ten) have thirteen lines each. Roughly thirty-seven letters are accommodated in each line. At many places especially from stanza 11 right upto 20, from 162 upto 176, from 200 to 208 the Ms. is not 20 at all legible. It begins with 3 79: si fart i quriagugih Rocurace Puma faaeghat I and ends with Arifahrenad Horarà 995450 AH
P: This is a second Ms. obtained on loan from the Government collection preserved at the Bhandarkar Oriental
1 This very title appears in the entries of the BỊ, CC and JG.
2 xfat shtatlaritycar un fefed gataflagao 1 d. gafariamori .. 3 The numbering of stanzas has been wrongly done here in this Ms. It is corrected in the edition,