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Introduction.
a hand which is different from that of the copyist. The first page of this extremely faulty copy contains some short stories, the last one two small texts. C. This quite recent and rather incorrect copy has been revised by two correctors. The first is generally right in his alterations and has compared either the original from which C derives, or some MS. which very closely agreed with this original. The second corrector, writing with pencil, was not an intelligent person. Most of his alterations show that he knew very little Sanskrit. D is a good MS.
The other two MSS. contain the metrical recension. They are :
M
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Ahmedabad Bhandar, marked as डा° ५०, nr. ३९ ( 15 leaves, 18 lines, not very old ).
m = Chhani MS., numbered as २१९ ( 10 leaves, 15 lines; dated संवत् १९६२ पोष शुक्लपचे ४ चतुर्थी भृगुवासरे).
m is very faulty and swarms with interpolations. Whereas M contains 422 stanzas (the MS. wrongly numbers 420), m numbers 479 stanzas.
This metrical version is a rather slavish versification of the prose text. It has not even a value for the restoration of difficult passages. Its author apparently had already a somewhat corrupted and interpolated prose text before him. He belonged to the Tapagaccha; his name and title was Jayavimala-gani, and he composed his work in Samvat 1658. I here give his praśasti.
तपगच्छमानसे यः सूरिः श्रीहीरविजयसूरिवरः । शुक्लद्विपचचारी स' राजितो राजहंस इव ॥ 1 तत्पट्टधारिधीरः सूरिः श्रीविजयसेन सूर्यभिधः । सो' जयतु जीवलोके यावन्मेरुर्भवेदचलः ॥ 2 तत्पादपद्मपरिमलसेवी श्रीधर्मसिंहगणिनामा । तत्पादाम्बुजसेवी जयविमलगणिर्गणे जीयात् ॥ 3 श्रीआम्रस्थलचातुर्मासिकमध्यस्थ प्रीतिविमलेन । शशिरसबाणाग्न्यब्दे' विहिताः श्लोकाचरित्रस्य ॥ 4
1) " Sam. 1583, + Sam. 1652. - In the following texts I do not give all the blunders of the MSS. ॥ 2) om. m ॥ ') m °धारिधारेः ॥
5) m स,
d) m • सूर्याभिध:. Vijayasona * Sam. 1604, + Sam. 1671. ॥ inserting fq at the end of the päda || १) M तत्पदपंकजसेवी ॥ ') M शशिरसबाणम्यूष्टे, , corr. from °ष्टो; m • बाणस्त्यब्जे ॥
