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Ben(ares): Govt. Or. College, Benares, Teu MSS, by courtesy of the
curator MM. Pt. Nārāyaṇa Šāstri Khiste. Bik (aner): Anup Sanskrit Library, Bikaner By courtesy of the Cantor
Mr. K. M. K. Sharina; 14 MSS in the Sanskrit collection, one in
the Rajasthāni. BM: British Museum, Bendall's Catalogue, [1902), nos, 254–256. BORI: Bhandarkar 0. R. Institute, Poona 4. Numbers cited are 325-350
of the MS Catalogue XITI-i. Six more MSS in the Bombay Govt. collection had escaped cataloguing, namely: Ao=796/1886-92; Eo - 795/1886-92; 331/1881-87, a śatakatraya with an avacūri modelled very closely on the Dhapasāra commentary of E; 392/1884-87, a comparatively inodern and disordered copy of version E with commentary; 736/1886-92 is a complete MS of Rāņā Pratāpasimha's Hindi verse translation of the trisati while 1447/1886-91 gives the same for Niti and Vairagya only. Besides all these, there are two fragments in the Raddi collection and
one in the Limaye collection at the same Institute. BU: Library of the University of Bombay, Fort, Bombay 1. The one MS
cited without number is 72 [complete] of the Nirantar collection; those cited with numbers are from the Bhadkamkar collection, BU 73/29 gives the Vairāgya with a “Vámani" metrical Marathi translation, but in the order of our X or Y version, plus some extra stanzas as from other copies. BU 114/7 is virtually complete; BU 84/2 contains Niti +88 sl. of Śrngāra, approximately of version B. The BU Library also kindly acquired my copies of F. 1 2. 3 G+, collations of M, and photostats of F: Hs, as well as a microfilm of Carey's 1804 edition of Bhartyhari. By courtesy
of the former Librarian Dr. P. M. Joshi, and his successors. BVB: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Harvey Road, Bombay 7. Twelve MSS
in a steadily increasing collection; by kindness of Muni Jinavijayaji, DC: Collection of the Madras Government; numbers from the Descriptive
Catalogue. The descriptions are of little use to the editor. Goa: Three MSS obtained by courtesy of Mr. A. K. Priolkar. The code word
by itself indicates the copy in his private collection; the other two are: 1) a copy of the Yı version and commentary for Niti and Srngāra ; 2) a complete copy of all three Satakas with the same commentary. These two MSS belong to descendants of the commentator Maheśvara Bhatta Sukhthankar, having been preserved in the family collection at Mäsela [=mabāśala], near Kumbhārjua, Goa, Portuguese India. To Mr. Priolkar is also due the chance to examine two codices from the Sri Mauninātha Rāmamandir, Bombay; these were a Tukā Brahmananda [X] MS in order S-N-V, and an incomplete as well as defective satakatraya with
"Vāmana's" Marāthi verse translation, parallelling Ujjain 711. Gondal: 3 MSS in the Rājaśālā Auşadhāśrama, Gondal, Kathiawar. GVS: Gujarat Vernacular Society, Ahmedabad. Five MSS, orre complete
[ no. 2387). By kindness of the curator, Śrí Rasiklal Parekh. Ham: Munirāja Sri Hamsavijayaji Jain Bhändār, Baroda. Six MSS by
special kindness of Sri Punyevijaya Muni. No. 2621 is an A version ,
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