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PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
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In preparing this edition I have made use of the following material:
I. For the text of the sutras of Haribhadra alone.
A. This MS. contains the sutras and an avacûrņi3 folios. The text, in the middle of the pages, has 11 lines, x 47 akṣaras.
G.-MS. of the Library of the Deccan College. See R. G. Bhandarkar's Report on the search for Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Bombay Presidency during the years 1884-85, 1885-86 and 1886-87, No. 13873 folios. Text with avacûrņi. Text: 10-13 lines × 42-49 akṣaras. The avacûrni is in both these MS. the same, but I have not found the name of the author. The age of the MS. in not easy to determine, but A seems to be older than G.
D.-MS. of the Library of the Deccan College. See Bhandarkar, loc. cit. No. 1386-24 f. x 171. x 52 aks. This MS. contains the text of Haribhadra with a commentary that is but an abstract of the commentary of Gunaratnasûri. No date.
E.-An old MS. of 27 fol. x 15 1. x 58 aks. It contains, fol. 1-25a, the sutras of Haribhadra and the same commentary as D.
E-The folios 25-27 of the MS. E. containing Haribhadra's text only.
II. For the sutras of Haribhadra and the commentary of Gunaratna:
B.-An old and carefully written MS. in the Library of the University of Berlin. See A. Weber Verzeichniss der Sanskrit-und Prakrit Handschriften, etc.
