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Introduction
This Ms. seems to have been copied from a prototype resembling, or belonging to, the tradition of the P Ms, which did not contain the marginal notes. The quality of the paper and the calligraphy indicates that it might have been copied not more than a century or so back, with the scribal errors of ommission and commission preserved in tact. But the copyist has recorded neither his own name nor the date of copying from the proptetype which definitely recorded the date as V. Sam. 1255.
The Ms. is written in black ink. The scribe is fairly accurate in his copying, though he often confounds 'Ca' with Va', 'Ba' with 'Bha', the Avagraha sign with
Bha', the Avagraha sign with 'i' 'ye' with 'Hā', 'Ya' with 'Pa', Ija' with 'Dya', 'Ta' with "Tha' with 'Cha' or "Tha', and commits more mistakes of his own consequently. He uses the then popular Khadi-mātrā style, and never the Padi-mātrā one though it is evidently a copy of a prototype utilizing the latter style due to which new mistakes have been committed by the copyist scribe of this Ms. Some other mistakes are committed by the scribe due to dropping of a few syllables of the words. A few mistakes have been noticed in the footnotes as variants for the benefit of the scholars interested in this aspect of textual criticism. He has also corrected some of the saśrtis of both P and the V Mss., while retaining many others in tact.
7. The Ujambai Upasraya Bhandara Ms. (the U Ms.) : This is a Paper Ms. belonging to the Ujambai Upashraya Bhandara, Ahmedabad, No. U/350/1, and is at present preserved (No. 17901) in the Manuscript section of the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. The details of this Ms. are as follows :
Name : Tilakamañjari. Author : Dhana pāla Kavi. Date : V. Sam. 1648, i.e. about 1592 A.D. Extent : 192 folios of rough old paper, Script : Jaina Devanagari with Pați matrā style. Size : 26 x 11.5 Cms. Beginning : 11 & 1l HÀI fart: 11 # a: 40 fsta....stc. End : Ai cha già 3 | TATSHETATA Fafiqoof pacat:
छ । ग्रंथाग्र ९००० सहस्रमानेन छ । वाग्मयांभाधि निर्मथ्य पीयूष इव दुद्धत तत्पिबतु सदा सतो विबुधैश्वर्य हेतेवे ॥१॥ अक्के दुक दुकक्रीडां दिककुमार्यः परस्पर । तदा मुद कथा दद्याद्वनपालकृता सती ॥२ छ । सवत् १६४८ वर्षे पोसमासे शुकलषक्षे चतुर्दशीदिने रविवासरे सद्वपुरे गहरष.
Argalia: 1' HII: stea: 11 articoli Tha whole Ms. consists of 192 folios, each of which measures approximately 26 x 11.5 Cms. Page one of folio 1 and page two of folio 192 are blank. The written portion in a folio measures approximately 20.3 x 9.3 Cms., and it bound on both
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