Upnidana Sutram

Author(s): Mangaldev Shastri
Publisher: Mangaldev Shastri

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stanzas at the end are not numbered, though every half-stanza is followed either by one or two strokes like I or II.
पृष्टमात्रा is often used in the MS.
B2. The second MS., colled B2 by myself, begins on fol. 1' and ends on fol. 7°. There are on an average 10 lines in a page and 25 letters in a line. The size of the fols. is 8' 4" x 42" inches.
It begins thus:-- (sic) श्रोन्नमः सामवेदाय नमः ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ श्रोम् ॥ श्रथातश्छंद विचयं व्याख्यास्यामो' गायत्र्युगिनुष्टुव बृहती पङ्किखिष्टुब्जगतीति सप्तार्षाएये 'काक्षरपदादीनि चतुरक्षराधिकानि प्रतिछंदसं' गायत्र्यादीनामुत्कृतिरवसानं' छंदसामा' लौकिकं' च'......
It ends thus:—( sic) यथा छंदोभिराकुंनां' देवान्मत्स्यानिवोदके || नाऽपश्यत्पुरा मृत्यु' रमृतत्वं ततो गताः ॥ ३ ॥ छंदोविदेव विप्रस्तु' धर्मतस्तद्गुणाऽश्रितः ॥ छंदसामेति सालोक्य 'ममृतत्वं च गच्छतीत्याह भगवान् गार्ग्यों गार्ग्यः ॥ १० ॥ ४ ॥
इति छंदः समाप्तः ॥ संवत् १७१४ वर्षे भ्राद्रवदि १० लिखितं व्या० जनासुतव्या० खोखलासुत व्या० गोकलसुत व्या० गदाधरेण लिखितं ॥ श्रीरस्तु ॥ कल्याणमस्तु || परोपकारार्थं च ॥ श्री ॥
This MS. wholly agrees with B1 in its division of the chapters and in the manner of indicating their ending, with the only exception that the ending of chapter VIII is shown here by ॥ ८ ॥ just before, and not after, the last four stanzas. The significance of ॥ १० ॥ after गार्ग्यों गार्ग्यः, as shown above, is not quite clear.
Like B it also gives the text of the Sutras continuously and does not number them. But the MS. differs from B1 in this respect that the scribe, or more likely a later reader, of the MS. made an attempt to divide the text of the Sutras by strokes like written
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