Shadavashyaka Banav Bodh Vrutti

Author(s): Prabodh Bechardas Pandit
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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DESCRIPTION OF THE MSS
The ms. is written on a thick, nice glazed paper, and the ink is well preserved. Folios are numbered twice in the margin in different hands till pp. 134, and then till end in one hand only.
There are marginal corrections and punctuations by a later hand; the corrections are indicated in the same way as B. There are a few intralinear corrections, here and there, there are a few marginal gloss, which explain and give equivalent old Gujarati words for Sk. or Pk. words. This is the only ms, which gives marginal gloss.
Usually pa dimātrā is used.
The ms. beings with: Arham. Sri Gauta masvämine namah. Surāsuradhīsa mahisa namyam......etc. and ends in the first hand by : Sri camdragacchâlamkāra Śrī Sri kharataragachhadhipati Sri Jinacandra sūrišişyaleśa śrī Tarunaprabhasüribhit Śrī mamtri-, and the rest is lost.
This ms, with its clear hand-writing, careful marks of punctuation, and intralinear dissolution of sandhi, with marginal gloss and careful corrections in the margin, on the whole leaves an impression of a very carefully copied ms., and though the date of copying is lost, it is an important aid in restoring the text.
(iii) L. A paper ms. from Limbdi Bhandar.
Written in slovenly handwriting, this ms. has 154 folios, measuring 11" X 44", margin of about half inch on both sides, a little less on top and bottom; it has 15 lines to a page, 50 letters to a line, except lines 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, due to the space kept in the middle.
The colophons (see appendix ) give the same date and place of composition; the date of copying is given as the 5th day of the bright half of Pausa, 1419 V. S. i. e. eight years after the composition of the text. This ms. is also copied at Patan. The prasasti stanzas 14-32 are dropped.
The margins are indicated by ordinary double black lines on both sides, and there is a space of about 1" in the shape of a parabola in the middle. The centre is perforated but it seems that it has never been used for binding the ms. as the edges are not worn.
There are no punctuation marks above the lines, and every word is separated in writing. The ms. is full of blunders like dharmma--kşau for karmma-kşau, luddheram for tuţthenam, and frequent ommissions and lacunae show that it is carelessly copied. There are very few marginal corrections, (in spite of innumerable mistakes) and whatever there are, are in very inferior hand. Corrections are mainly done by deleting the wrong words in ordinary ink, or rubbing yellow pigment over the wrong word. The ms. is written on such an inferior paper that the scribe has sometimes to leave some space for fear of spreading ink.
Use of pa dimātrā is less frequent. The ms. begins with:-nainah sarvajmaya. Namaḥ śrutadevatayai. Sri Gautamasvāmine namah. Surāsurädhiśamahišana myam ... etc; and ends with :-subham bhavatu. subham astu.
This ms., as it will be seen later, has its exemplar in Bh., and hence it is not useful as apparatus criticus, though the orthography of the ms. helps in studying scribal habits.
(iv) P. A paper ms. from Patan, śrī sa ngh no jain jõān bhandar, no. 691.
Closely written on an ordinary paper, it contains 196 folios, a margin of 1" on the right and left, a little less on top and bottom; twelve lines to a page, 51 words to a line, except lines 5, 6, 7, 8, due to the space left in the middle.
The colophons give the same date of composition, and the date of copying as 11th day of the dark half of Jeth, Tuesday, 1508 V.S., at Saraswati Pattana, i. e. Anahilla Pattana. The prasasti stanzas 14-32 are, as in two other mss., omitted.