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Vol. XXV, 2002 SARASVATIKANTHABHARAŅ...
109 (8) No. 697 (38.1.7) Sarasvatīkanthābharaṇam - Bhojadevakstam
Paper, 8 1/2" x 6 5/8", 170 foll. 14 lines per page, Devanāgarī script. Good. Good writing. The Ms contains only sūtrapatha. Complete in 8 chapters. It is a
copy of R. No. 3279 prepared by K. Ramachandra Sharma, Adyar. (9) No. 698 Sarasvatīkanthābharaṇa-vyākhyā – Hrdayahāriņi
Paper, 8" x 6 1/2", 1247 foll., 14 lines per page, Devanāgarī script. New. Good. Good writing. Bound in 7 volumes or 8 parts on the whole, the volume 3 containing 2 parts. The pagination in parts 1 to 3 is continuous as 1 to 1043 and in parts 4 to 8, as 1 to 1449. The Ms contains the commentary upto the end of ch. VII.
Remarks : 1. The Revised Catalogue of the Palace Granthappura (Library), Trivandrum,
edited by K. Sambasiva Sastri (1929) at p. 35 mentions palm leaf MSS Nos. 806 and 817. It appears that these same MSS are described in the Descriptive Catalogue of 1938. However, in the case of No. 806 the character is mentioned to be Malayalam and no. of granthas 175. In the
case of No. 817, the no. of granthas is mentioned as 20000. 2. The Annual Report on the Administration of the Dept for the Publication of
Skt MSS for 1104 ME, Travancore State, mentions on p. 16, No. 62 Sarasvatīkanthābharana-vrtti of Dandanātha. This appears to be same as described under No. 557 earlier. The Ms belongs to Brahmadattan Namburipad, Plakkattiri, Koodalloramana, Pattambi. However, the size is
mentioned to be 1200 granthas. 3. A Catalogue of Skt MSS, edited by Gaņapati Šāstrī (1923), Trivandrum, Vol
III, p. 9, No. 53 mentions a Ms of Sarasvatikanthābharana (size 2200 granthas) which was prepared from the Ms obtained from the Govt Oriental MSS Library, Madras. The latter appears to be R. No. 3279, which was copied to Ms bearing No. 556 mentioned earlier.
Acknowledgement
The author expresses his deep gratitude to Prof. E. R. Rama Bai, Head of the Sanskrit Dept, University of Madras, for making available the manuscript numbers on SKĀ from different libraries. The author is thankful to Dr. S. D. Laddu,
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