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Introduction
Remarks : I have utilised the photostat of the microfilm shots of the folios 1 to 237. In the photostate the folios measure about 16 × 1.5 Cms. The written portion, divided into two by a margin of about 1 to 1.3 Cms., almost in the middle, measures about 5.3 Cms, on the left half, and 7 Cms., on the right one length-wise, and the breadth varies according to the length of the folios. The number of lines in each folio varies from 3 to 6, at times even 8, according to the breadth of the folio. Each line has on average about 64 letters. Page one of folio 1 is blank. The text begins from the beginning of the second page of folio 1. The left and the right margins of p. 1 and the left margins of p. 2 of each of the folios is left blank, while in the right margin of p. 2 of each of the folios, the folio no. is written slightly higher than, and to the left of the centre of, the margin, generally in line with the line no. 2, but sometimes with line no. 3 too. The Ms. is in very good condition, except for folios 114-129, which are slightly torn in the right hand half of the written portion near the right hand margin, and one page each of the folios 101 ard 102 as also of folios 116 and 117 have been blurred. This Ms. seems to have been copied from a prototype which is quite different from that of the P Ms., as is clear from the variants. The scribe of the Ms. is fairly accurate in copying the letters as he confounds only q' and 'a' and generally tends to adopt the śa-śști rather than the Sa-śști which is rare in his copying. But so far as the numbering of the verses is concerned, he is not so exact, and he has left many of them unnumbered, eg. the Vs. Nos. of 14th, 44th, 45th, and etc., thus carrying the mistake forward upto the end of Vs. No. 53 which is left unnumbered. This Ms. seems to belong to the text-tradition of the J Ms. and has been followed by Santisuri in his Tippananaka commentary, and by the copyist of the Ś Ms.
4. The Vädipārsvanātha Bhandara Ms. (the V Ms.) : This is a Paper Ms. stored in the Vadi Parsvanatha Bhandara in the Hemachandra Jnana Mandir at Patan (North Gujarat). It is numbered 6631, and preserved well-packed in Box No. 168. The details of the Ms. are as follows: Name
: Tilakamañjari Owner
: Hemachandra Jnana Mandir, Patan. Date
: Approximately 15th century of the Vikrama Era. Author
: Dhanapāla Kavi. Material : Old, very thin, yellow, extremely brittte, paper folios. No. of Folios : 121. Size
: 30.5 x 11 Cms. Script
: Jain Devanagari with Padi-mātrā style. Beginning : FH: 92 93 I Aa: etc., End
: 45G THI HEHING |
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