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INTRODUCTION
Mudamalla frequently quotes Hemacandra's Prakrit gra. mmar and his Deśīnāmamāla. He quotes also the Viśvaprakāśa.1 In his gloss on Setu 5.35 he seems to refer to Kṛṣṇa. vipra's explanation of the verse. The word tanka in that verse is explained by Kṛṣṇa as arrow; and this explanation is found only in him among our commentators. Mudamalla mentions it as the opinion of Kaścit, and confines himself to elucidating the purport of Kṛṣṇavipra's interpretation. That he is later than Kṛṣṇavipra seems certain; but there is no definite clue to his date, He seems to be referred to by Latakana. miśra whom we have placed about 1625 A. D. (see below).
Kṛṣṇadāsa
An incomplete palm-leaf ms. of the commentary of Kṛṣṇadāsa on the Setubandha in Malayalam script is preserved in the Oriental Research Institute and Mss. Library, Trivandrum. A Devanagari transcript of this ms. was available for study long after the Extracts from the commentaries were in the press. It covers only the first seven Cantos and four verses of Canto 8 (13-16), breaking off at the beginning of the gloss on v. 17. The ms. is not very well-preserved, and contains numerous mistakes and omissions, especially in the Sanskrit chaya of the Prakrit verses.
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The commentary is brief, and contains some interesting explanations, but it does not explain all the difficulties, often confining itself to general remarks. There are many verses of which it gives only the chaya without any gloss. With regard to readings, Kṛṣṇadasa consistently follows the South Indian recension; and his text is, therefore, practically the same as that of Kṛṣṇavipra and Madhavayajvan. It is noteworthy that ten of
I See Extracts 4.47.
2 See Extracts 5.35. Kṛṣṇa says tanka(cche da) sabdena śarābhighāta ucyate.
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