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INTRODUCTION
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Basic MSS
The text of the Sastratattvavinirnaya herewith printed is based on three MSS. They Description of all belonged to Śrī Bhau Saheb Katre of Banaras who presented two ( and a) of them to the Scindia Oriental Institute, Ujjain, in 1931 and has retained the third () in his MSS collection. No further MS could be traced in the available Catalogues or Lists of MSS by me or by Dr. V. Raghavan, Working Editor of the New Catalogus Citalogorum that is being serially published by the Madras University.
MS-It bears Accession No. 1882 of the Manuscripts Library of the Scindia Oriental Institute and was briefly, though inadequately, detailed in the Institute's Catalogue of MSS, Part I (1936) The MS originally consisted of forty-five folios of the size 11 × 42 inches, out of which two, viz. Folios 31 and 32, are missing, so that the MS now contains only forty-three folios. Margin is left of about an inch on the four sides of each page of the folios. The main work starts from Folio 1 and thence each page bears nine lines with about thirty-six bold Devanagari letters written in dark-black ink on each line. The scribe's colophon occurs at the end of Folio 45b as "ॐ नमो नारायणाय सर्वात्मा श्री सीताराम लिहिता तद्भक्त नाना आत्र ॥”. Thus the scribe's name is Nana Atri, but his place and date are not mentioned. However, from his name and semiMarathi colophon he appears to be a Mahārāṣṭra
1. P. 31, Serial No 804.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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