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At three places a lacuna each was noticed in the flow of the story while the scribe did not indicate any sign of having missed something. Though it is no business of an editor of old texts to exceed his brief and tread the risky path of supplementing the text, I have ventured to do so in the interest of preserving the spirit and the flow of the original prose work--and this to my mind, is the main duty of the author of a compendiun. Of course, with due deference to the tenets and convention of textual criticism, I have put such proposed additions rather "interpolations"-in square brackets, and they are printed in a smaller print so as to be conspicuous as such. I have shown due reasons for such an addition in the foot-notes.
The scribal peculiarities and errors have been consigned to the foot. notes rather than allowing them to obstruct the text proper, and possibly annoy the sympathetic reader enjoyer of the work, if the corruption is put forth as the text and the correct reading indicated by showing it in round brackets with a question mark. This latter practice would serve only to make the text a record of scribal failings-fit for exhibiting as a museum-piece.
This work was first noticed in the Bșhattippanikā under the number 522 in the Jain Gramthāvali.? It has also been noted by Pandits Viracandra and Prabhudāsa: in the Sankrit introduction to their 'pothi'-type edition of the Tilakamañjari-kathā-sāra of Pt. Lakşmidhara. Prof H. D. Velankar also has taken due note of this work in his Jinaratnakośa," wherein, however, the details given under the relevant head are actually found to be rather mixed up. Firstly, nowhere in the whole of TMS does the word 'sāroddbāra'even orce occur, nor does the word 'Leç bu Dhanapāla'. On personal verification it has been found that the only Sanskrit compendiun containing a part-'uddhāra'-of the former word, is the one ascribed to Padmasăgara, as it can possibly bear the title "Kathoddhāra,"5 but in no way the title "sāroddhāra." However, in the lists of mss., this work is noticed as the "Tilakamañja11-kathā-prabandha" about which we shall discuss later on. The extent of the work mentiond in the JRK -"gram 1223"-also seems to be a mistaken reading of actually 1993 which is found to be the number of the last verse of the above work ascribed to Padmasāgara.6 However, this entry can be justified in the case of 2. JG, p. 330, 3. TMKS. Intro. p. 1 : fa kta faaragtatai #: sega: 8797 g
दिगम्बरपण्डितश्रीधनपाल: श्रीपद्मसागरगणयश्च । 4. JRK. p. 160. under तिलकमञ्जरीसारोद्धार by लघुधनपाल. 5. TMKU. I am fas$4321: gli faa: 11 6. cf. TMKU folio 59 of the Mi. No, alcze at the L. D. Institute of Indology,
Ahmedabad.
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