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INTRODUCTION
The whole book of 89 leaves is closely written in a uniform Kutilā character. The date is given in the colophon (Page 142) as Ha@ 3TT P. This era seems to be the Nepal era, consequently the ms. seems to have been written in 1152 A.C. during the reign of ronfarcter 4283424<HHET<*>ithcrarca. In the ms. page numbers are marked by consonant letters not by figures and on the opposite margin Tibetan numbers are given by a later hand. A photo of some pages of the ms. is given in my article Palm-leaf ms. in Tibet (JBORS Vol. XXI, Pt. I)
The script of the text of the Vādanyāya ms. is also Kuțila, like the ms. above mentioned, but it is written with a swift and clear hand. The date of this ms. can be also assigned to the 12th century on palaeological ground. In the colophon we find- fa amatufa. There are 20 leaves in this ms, and each page contains 9 to 11 lines.26
In both the mss. no distinction is made between a and a; and in many places and are interchanged. Throughout the mss. an anusvāra at
the end of the sentence is retained. This seems to be · a common practice as we find it in Pramāņavārtika
kārika and other Sanskrit mss. found in Nepal and Tibet.
In the margin of both the text and the commentary I have given the leaf number of the ms. and the lines of ms. are also marked in small figures. It would
26 ibid., p. 22. (176).
