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(b) in the TMKS as--
cf197 cazai warga 1 330.
Pallipāla Dhanapāla has, thus, clearly scored over Lakşmidhara both in the point of preservipg the poetic flavour and the spirit of the original prose-romance, and in that of the skill in presentation of the story which he has fully grasped. Lakşmidhara, on the other hand, bas tried to win a point against the author of the TMS by his success at economising to the extent of about sixteen verses-actually about thirty to thirty-five gremthas--, but he could not rise beyond the level of a mere epitomist, who could not properly catch at the significance and the excellences of a great classic.
IX Pallipala Dhanapāla and the Author of the TMKU-A Study in Contrast:
As the work has not yet been published so far, a few remarks about its title and authorship may not be out of place. Prof. H. D. Velankar has noticed in his Jiparatna-kośa 6 a work known as Tilakameñjailprabandha by Padmasāgara. The title is based on the colophon* 7 of the work. However, the authority of this colophon is open to doubt in so far as a palm leaf K Ms. of this same work---other than the paper K Ms. of it quoted in the foot-note-does not have any colophon whatsoever and hence it is listed in the unpublished list of the Kāptivijayaji Bhandara under the title 'Harivāhanacarita'. (Palm Leaf Ms. No. 2.). Moreover the title is rather misleading as it may be easily mistaken for the TM. I have therefore preferred for my purpose the title "Tilakamañjari-kathoddhāra" (TMKU), in accordance with the statement48 of the author himself at the beginning of this work. So far I could personally utilise only three Mss.49 Two of these Mss, viz. K and N, do not mention the name of the author. The B Ms. does mention in the last verse the name of the author as 'Padmasāgara', the disciple of Dharmasāgara'.' 0 But the palm-leaf Ms. noted above does not contain this 46. cf. JRK. p. 160. 47. cf. TMKU. : gfa sifaa 1977: Å qulaTFT; K Ms. folio 53 sfa ea .
Frigaru: QUI ARIAA: 1, B. Ms. folio 67; sfaxitfastigara: IN, Ms. folio 54. 48. cf. TMKU verse 1: giã faciayaf: gri sata: 1 49. They are : (1) The KMS in the Kantivijayaji Bhandar (No. 1802) at the Ātmārāma
Jaina Jñāna Mandir, Baroda; (2) N/827 at the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad (N MS); and (3) No. 791 of 1895-1902 at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
Poona (B Ms.) 50. cf. TMKU B. MS folio 67 :
वाचकाग्रेसर श्रीमद्धर्मसागरशिष्यकैः । fafiatsi 54114: ifəå: 97T: 118011 (i. e. verse No. 1998)
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