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MSS. C and D only for the first chapter, after which they were recalled from my possession by the owner. I had, howerer, previously collated the whole of JS. D, and noted all its variations in my copy of the Calcutta print. Accordingly MS. D is referred to throughout the edition. IS. F I was able to use from the second chapter, and us. G from the third chapter, to the end of the work. USS. H I only received when the edition was practically completed and printed off. For the entire work, therefore, there were only available MSS. A and B, and the Calcutta print E. Some of the leaves were reprinted from time to time, and in these, so far as it was possible, the rariations occuring in the MSS. F, G and I have been introduced. For the sake of completeness I have added in an Additional Critical Note a selection of the more interesting variations, exhibited by the MSS. F, G, H, n those portions of the work, for the edition of which, at first, they had not been available.
For the commentary I had the following materials:
a-MS., belonging to Dr. E. Hultzsch, acquired by him in Gujarat in 1881, and very kindly placed by him at my service. It is a beautifully, and, with a very few exceptions, carefully written manuscript. It is a portion of a collective manuscript of 351 leares, with 9 lines of about 36 akşara each, which contains commentaries of the following five Angas: Upāsakadashā (leaves 1-49), Antaksiddashā (to 65), Anuttaraupapātika (to 81), Prashnavyäkarana (to 30-1), Vipaka (to 351). To all appearances, however, the manuscript is incomplete, or was never complete; though perhaps it is only the last leaf, with the usual concluding phrases, which is wanting. No date appears anywhere in the manuscript. But to judge froin the style of writing, it may be of about the same age as MS. A.
C-MS., forming part of VIS. C. e-Print, forining part of Print E. -MIS., belonging to Professor R. Garbe, and acquired by
