Setubandha

Author(s): Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTION
The Oriental Mss. Library, Madras has another ms. of Kṛṣṇavipra's commentary on the Setubandha in Grantha characters', of which a Devanagari transcript was obtained later for comparison with our copy of the ms, described above. Apart from the removal of a few inaccuracies from the Extracts, it has not been very helpful for our purpose. It breaks off towards the end of Canto 10, and contains numerous mistakes besides lacunae and jumbling of verses.
A Devanāgari transcript of another ms. of Kșşņa's commentary, preserved in the Oriental Research Institute and Mss. Library, Trivandrum, could be obtained after the major portion of the Extracts was in the press. It is, on the whole, a good ms., and has been utilized for the purpose of this Introduction and some of the verses of the later Cantos. Unfortunately it breaks off at verse 63 of Canto 12.
It may be noted that Goldschmidt in his edition of the Setubandha gives many of the readings of Kļşņavipra in footnotes from what appears to be a complete ms. of the commentary. However, in the Introduction to his edition (p. xi), he states that this ms., written in Telugu script, is very carelessly copied, and fragmentary at places. Nevertheless we have depended on the readings recorded by him in the portion of the text not covered by the manuscripts mentioned above.
It is difficult to determine the date of Krşņavipra accu. rately. He frequently quotes the Vaijayanti of Yadavaprakāśa who is identified with Rāmānuja's early teacher of that name; and the lexicon may therefore be assigned to the second half of the eleventh century. This gives the upper limit of 1 The ms. is referred to in the Extracts as B of K. In the Extracts from Krøna (3.61)
भ्रामितौ निवर्तितौ should be... विवर्तितौ which is the reading of B. 2 in the Extracts from Krsna (2.9) the explanation of sthiti prabhūtam is incomplete.
It is given in full in the Trivandrum ms. : sthitau maryādāyām prabhutam paryāptam. 3 See Oppert's edition, Madras, 1893; and Introd. to Kalpadrukosa (GOS), p. XXVI.