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ŚABDABRAHMOLLĀSA OF UDAYAPRABHA 231 theoretical distinctions is what makes the available Sabdabrahmollāsa interesting.
The style of the fragment is simple and lucid. The metre is anuştubh, Udayaprabha's favourite. A few simple śabdālamkāra-s such as yamaka and anuprāsa and standard arthālamkāra-s such as rūpaka are used. In this it differs from Udayaprabha's other works such as Sukstakallolini where he employs numerous classical metres and many more elaborate figures of speech.
The only available MS. of the work is on palm leaves. It was originally in the Khetaravasi Bhandar at Patan and is now deposited in Śrī Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñānamandira at Patan. I deciphered the text from its photostat copy kindly made available by Professor D. D. Malvania. Dr. N. M. Kansara made some suggestions after comparing my version of the text with the photostat copy. I am indebted to both these scholars. I have acknowledged the letters first deciphered by Kansara with the letters NMK in my notes.
The measurements of the folios of the palm-leaf MS. are given as 9"x111" on my photocopy. Although C. D. Dalal and the editors of the New Catalogus Catalogorum describe the MS. as having 14 pages (i.e. leaves) and 49 verses, the MS. at present has only 13 leaves and 47 verses. One leaf seems to have been lost sometime between 1915-18, the probable years of Dalal's compilation, and 1953, when Sandesara's account was published. In the photocopy available to me, the front side of the eighth leaf is totally illegible
