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T, whereas the MS. B represents an independent version of the work, as will be shown in a special paper to be published in the Transactions of the Imperial Academy of Vienna.. B is the most correct of all the four MSS., although the letters of the commentary are very small and not so well written as those of the MS. T, besides that it is tolerably free from clerical blunders; these, that occur very frequently in the other MSS., as well as varieties of the verbal roots in the commentary have been passed over in the Notes. To ascertain the forms of the latter I had at my disposal the following MSS.:
II, MSS. of the Dhatupaṭha.
1. MS. Orient. fol. 1129 of the Royal Library of Berlin, see Weber, op. cit. Nro. 1644, containing on fols. 8, a-13, b the text of the Dhatupaṭha.
2. MS. Orient. fol. 770 of the Royal Library of Berlin, see Weber, op. cit. Nro. 1681, containing the Dhatupatha with Hemachandra's own commentary, the Dhatupārāyaṇa.
It may be useful to point out that Hemachandra's classification of the roots and his Anubandhas somewhat differ from those used by the Papinean School. Hemachandra divides the roots into nine classes, the second and third of Panini's system being lumped together. Roots of the first class receive no Anubandha or indicatory letter. To the eight others the following letters are appended:- to the second, e. g. to the third, e. g. क्रुपच्; टू to the fourth, eg. साधं त् to the fifth, eg पिशन्; प to the sixth, e. g. कृतैपू; य् to the seventh, eg. तनूयी; शू to the eighth, e. g. शृश्; प् to the ninth, e. g. . Among the other Anubandhas added to roots for various purposes the following differ from those used by Panini, see Westergaard, Rad. p. 342:
Panini.
Anudatta
Udättet
इ
इर
3
ई
उ
ऊ
3
H
Hemachandra. Anusvära
2
after consonants a
उ
F
ऐ
इorड़ ई or ग्
1 Only for the text of the Sutras they have been given.
2 This may be followed by other Anubandhas. After a series of roots belonging to the tenth class it has another meaning, see Westergaard, Rad. p. 377, § 35.
Aho! Shrutagyanam
