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each page wherein several emendations and additions are found inserted. The main work begins with Folio 1 b, and seven lines with about thirty-two bold Devanagari letters on each line occur in dark-black ink on each side of the folios, except on Folio 59 b which contains only four such lines. The scribe of this MS is probably identical with that of MS, but he has not recorded his name, place and date in the MS. A different hand has written the stray Prefatory Verse ( स्वपरमत० ) in two lines in the middle of the opening page and also some of the additional matter occurring in the margins of a few pages.
INTRODUCTION
The three MSS are correctly written and their folios are of straw paper. From texappears to
Chronology of the tual point of view MS
three MSS
be first, MS second and MS a final, Ive since the marginal emendations and additions of the earlier stages occur as the main original body of the later stages. A glance at the main text and the few footnotes below the text would easily confirm this chronology.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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