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INTRODUCTION
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End: a 9919743TAI AATAT fazlogain: 1 pacaa $90 ( = 1613 A.D. (? Jahtaa?)8838 (1874 A.D.). 391ECITÀ R (Refea) CHI
1-MS belonging to the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona; No. 1358 of 1884–87. 61 folios ( = 122 pages). Hand-made paper. Size 13" x 8". Twenty-six breadthwise lines on every page and 28-30 letters in every line. The text and commentary ( of Ratnadeva ) are written continuously in fairly legible hand.
Beginning : ओं नमः परमात्मने । श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः । प्राकृतसुभाषितावल्या विद्यालयस्य छाया लिख्यते। तत्र शास्त्रस्यादौ श्वेताम्बरशिरोमणिर्जयवल्लभों नाम कविः etc.
End : गच्छे पृथौ श्रीमति मानभद्रसूरिः etc., same as the four stanzas quoted on p. xiv supra.
J-No. 3353 (551) of the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. 3+ folios ( 68 pages). Hand-made paper. Size 9"-3". Incomplete, with six ( 2, 10, 11.31, 32, 33 ) out of 34 folios missing. 16 lengthwise lines on every page and 52-56 letters in every line. Legible Nāgarī characters. Text and commentary are written continuously. The name of the commentator is not mentioned.
__Beginning ; श्रीगुरुर्जयति । प्राकृतसुभाषितावल्या विद्यालयस्य छायाधिकारः लिख्यते । 1977 DIETETIRI TERTAUF42941 AiH sa: etc.
The MS breaks off at the end of folios 34 in the midst of the stanza : fan afet riferi a faq quas Safir ( st. 674, 95774al ).
As six out of the 33 folios in MS.J are 'missing and as the MS breaks off after folio 34, as many as 30 complete sections (Vajjās) and parts of seven others are absent in the MS. The sequence of the sections in the portion available to us is exactly the same as in MSS B, G and I. But the commentary is found omitted in the case of many stanzas, such stanzas being accompanied by the remark सुगमम् , सुगमा or सुगमभेव. Many times the textual explanation in the commentary on a stanza is omitted and only the general remarks explaining the main idea in the stanza or some grammatical peculiarity in the stanza are given and vice
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