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entitled to identify this Jinakīrti with the pupil of Somasundarasūri (+ Samvat 1499), as does Klatt in his admirable "Specimen of a Literary-Bibliographical Jaina-Onomasticon'), p. 15. For there is no reason to assume that there has existed only one Jaina scholar of this name. At all events, the author of our story must have lived in Gujarat ) considerably before the composition of the metrical Sanskrit version which was completed in Samvat 1653 %).
To my great regret I was not granted either the use of the 3 Campaka- MSS. belonging to the upāśraya of Pophliāno Pādo in Pātan"), nor of the one MS. known from the catalogue of the upaśraya of Deblāno Pādo in Ahmedabad"). But Mr. Modi Keshavlal Premchand was kind enough to send me two copies of our story from another subdivision of the Ahmedabad Bhandar, and one from the Jain Pustakālaya in Chhani, near Baroda. A fourth MS. was forwarded to me by Shāstravishārada-Jainācārya Munirāj Shrī Dharmavijaya Sūri, of Benares; a fifth and sixth, belonging to the Deccan College library, by F. W. Thomas, and besides I used the readings of the Berlin MS. as given by Weber.
The seven MSS. just recorded contain two different texts, the prose text published in the following pages, and a metrical version, which has been made from this prose text.
The following MSS. contain the prose recension: A = Poona MS., Bhand. Cat. VIII, 718 (4 leaves, 20 lines,
from Jeypur). B = Ahmedabad Bhandar, TT° 40, nr. 80, (8 leaves, 15 lines,
not very old). C = Poona MS., Bhand. Cat. VIII, 717 (18 leaves, 11 lines,
new copy, from Pathan). D = Dharmavijaya's MS. (11 leaves, 13 lines; dated Samvat 1631). W = the Berlin MS., nr. 2017, as printed by Weber.
All these copies are paper MSS. A is in a careful old handwriting on fine thin old paper. At the end of the MS. its copyist gives his name as Pandit Bhuvana merug anin. A Bhuvanamerugaṇin is mentioned as the brother of a copyist who copied a MS. in Sam. 1706). - B shows numerous marginal additions in
1) Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz 1892. , Weber, 1. c. p. 570. Bühler, ibid. p. 885 f. 8) See below p. 3 and 8. “) R. G. Bhandarkar, Report 1887, pages 181, 186, 190.
5) Same Report, p. 239. On page 285, 80 W ATTY T is a misprint for at taatat, as Mr. Premchand kindly informs me. This, then, is quite another work a second copy of which is mentioned on p. 239, ST° 3€, nr. 00 *99TOTT. The first of these two M88. comprises 85, the second 34, leaves.
See Weber's Catalogue II, 3, p. 928, nr. 1962.
