Book Title: Shataka Trayadi Subhashit Sangraha
Author(s): Bhartuhari, Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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________________ 70 INTRODUCTION 797 =$98, and 633 V96, in spite of which the total falls short of 300. Finally, Ham 1836 dated A. D. 1844 follows Bik 3277 closely enough to compel the shifting of 165 to group II. Utilizing this information, I could now emend my groups as -follows: besides 130, 149, 165 and 161, no. 132* should be shifted to group II, which might as well receive 74*, 180*; and 38* (also omitted in the lacunary Mehidpur LIS). In view of the fact that I believe C to be a proper version, nos. 99", 135*, 139* could go to group II, though 145* might be missing because of some lacuna at the end. Similarly, as BORI 329 and Punjab 2101 constitute a version, one can relegate 179*, 180*, 181* 182*, to the second group though the sequence suggests another lacuna in the source; this does not apply to 174, 175*, 176*, which might be so transferred. Finally, of the stanzas shown with a star in group II, no. 230 pay safely lose its asterisk, and the Bikaner 3277 evidence helps us with Ham 1836 to remove the star also from 226 and 324. Stanza 82 must at least be starred, It might seem that an increase of MS evidence can only lead to the total erasure of group I, and a corresponding inflation of IT, as perhaps of III, seeing that omissions are bound to increase for the nuclear slokas whereas strays will continue to flock in. However, it should be emphasized once again that this is a superficial conclusion; with more MSS, one can better determine the number of versions as well as their interrelationship, which would eliminate asterisks completely from the numbers, and might even enable us to restore some like 229*, 251* to group I, with the certainty that all those which then remained in II and III were definitely later additions, 3.7. Testimonia. The secondary evidence in the way of citations in anthologies is of little direct use in the critical problem. The anthologies, as well as translations, do give valuable support in locating versions geographically. The procedure in my case was simple. It was out of the question to index every work where subhasitas occur, and Aufrecht's MS pratika index, received from the India Office after the war, is so badly out of date as to be useless. So, I went through all the printed works generally available by the simple procedure of glancing over the stanzas where the work itself was not indexed. Incidentally, an index can be misleading, as for example with manasi vacusi kāye, which is a sloka in the Mahanataka entirely different from our 19. An unexpected delay of two months after sending my text to the press allowed a similar examination of several MS anthologies, mostly at the BORI. These were helpful in culling additions to group III, and emending corrupt stanzas from isolated MSS. It is understood that group III stanzas may occur in other works, but as their number increased with the number of MSS examined, it was impossible to trace most of them in the MS anthologies, and even in printed works except the larger standard collections like BIS., SRB., SRK., SRH., SDK, SKM., etc. Comparatively fewer citations can have been missed for the first two groups. Among Marāthi translations, that of Takā Brahmănanda, associated with our X, has yet to be edited property. Kavi Bāla's versions, represented by NS3 and Anandāśrama 624 has never been published. The bost known Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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