________________ INTRODUCTION Manuscript Description The manuscript, which we utilised, of Gunaratna's Sukhabodhika sippanika on Tattvacintamani belongs to the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, wellknown for its collection of manuscripts and antiquities. It is a paper manuscript which is in good condition. It bears No 04874. Its size is : 27.5 x 12 cms. It has 304 folios. Folios Nos 1, 45-47 are missing. And No. 104 is given to two folios. Similarly, No. 227 is also given to two folios. Each side of a folio has 17 or 18 lines, and each line has 50 to 52 letters. No other manuscript of the work is available. Title and Structure It is unfortunate that the first folio of the manuscript is missing. But the last folio, at the end, contains : वा० गुणरत्ने नातीव प्रयासेन सुखबोधिका निर्मिता / अतिप्रयासेन मया विनिर्मिता सु[ख]बोधिका टिप्पनिका मुदैषा। Gunaratna calls his commentary Tippanika. This suggests that his commentary is of the nature of annotations. But this seems to be misleading. It is more than mere annotations. This will be clear from our evaluation of the commentary. It is only out of modesty that Gunaratna calls it Tippanika. He gives an adjective 'sukhabodhika' to his Tippanika; the adjective is apt because the commentary (Tippanika) lucidly explains the knotty points of the texts it deals with. Thus Sukhabodhika Tippanika is the title of the work. Here we should note that at the end of the section on paramarsa there occurs : sfa 47438 GHDTHT I And again at the end of the section on kevalanvayigrantha we have : sfat addimalayaschuffTcht Is it that Prakasika was the tentative title while Sukhabodhika Tippanika was the title finalised on the completion of the commentary? It is noteworthy that Gunaratna explains the famous Tattvacintamani of Gangesa (c. 1300 - 1350 A.D.) from the beginning of Upadhi to the end of 1. ato = dla
