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INTRODUCTION
Gs DC R 4783c. Collated against the printed Tin text by Dr. T. R. Cintamani of the Madras University Department of Oriental Studies.
It will be seen that the grouping by script is only a matter of convenience, without much inner significance. In fact, the Grantha group has strong affinities with the next:
M: The Malayalam Group.
This consists of five palm-leaf Malayalam MSS, of which Mi was copied on my special collation sheets at Trivandrum, the rest being collated there against the copy. These fall into at least two sub-groups, though on occasion they all differ in readings. The first contains M1-3: M1-2010, M2 2011 both of the Palace Library; M3 = 2087 of the University Library, Trivandrum. Of these, the third is corrupt but gives N regdings oftener than the rest of M. This subgroup agrees often with G1.
Version Mt. 5. M1 = 6122 of the University Library and Ms - 2008 of the Palace collection. This minor version is supported by Mysore 582, a Grantha palm-leaf codex that is comparatively modern in appearance, and has been emended throughout by some ardent Vaisnava who systematically changes every mention of Siva to Vişņu or the equivalent, particularly in the Vairagya.
The M group again shows occasional agreement with N against the other peninsular types, as in the Mahabharata; naturally, special importance has been attached to such a concordance wherever it occurs.
Citation of slokas in any MS of type Y T G M is generally by paddhati and number. Thus, N III-7 means (if no extra slokas have preceded) no. 27 of niti; similarly for the vairagya. For Ś the numberings are by twenties, whence Ś III-7 would mean no. 47.
In general, it must be understood that a "collated" MS is one from which readings have been fully reported in the critical apparatus of the first two groups. However, even from MSS "not collated", there appear extra stanzas in groug III, though not all the variants could be recorded in such cases, simply because such MSS were either too corrupt or came to hand only after a good part of the text had been printed off. The loss of information from such unrecorded variants is negligible, while the possible revisions that might have to be made in my grouping are considered in a later section of this preface.
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