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Brāhmaṇa probably residing at Banaras and in respect of date he is not much removed from the original composition of the work. A different hand has written the stray Prefatory verse (ca.) in two lines in the middle of the opening page and a few notes elucidating some obscure points in the main text on the margins of some subsequent pages, matter that seems to have come down from the author himself and therefore suggests the probability of a sort of contact between the scribe and the author.
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This broken MS was formerly enclosed with MS but has now been separated and entered against Accession No. 2542 of the Scindia Oriental Institute's Manuscripts Library It originally consisted of fifty-six folios of the size 11x43 inches. out of which eleven, viz. Folios 1-3. 5-7, 10-12. 22 and 56. are missing. so that it now contains only forty-five folios. Each page of the folios bears seven lines with about thirty-two bold Devanagari letters written in dark-black ink on each line. Margin is left of about an inch on the four sides of each page of the folios wherein emendations of, or additions to. the originally written text are found inserted at some places. Due to the loss of the concluding folio, the name, date and place of the scribe cannot be traced. The handwriting is different from that in MS but probably same as that in MS .
MS-This MS consists of fifty-nine folios of the size 11x4 inches and is intact in all respects. Margin of about an inch is left on the four sides of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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