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existed in M2. He could not find out from what source Kavi supplied it. M4,
along with M3, seems to have been cited by De as "Ms. A" in the text-critical
footnotes of his edition.
M5: A transcript of M2 deposited at the Adyar Library and Research Centre
under the number TR 398.
M6: Transcript of a part of M5 received (and probably possessed) by K from
the Adyar Library, Madras.
Covers the third and fourth unmesas.
Editions
1.
The Vakrokti-jivita --- by Rājanaka Kuntala with his own commentary.
(Chapters I and II). Edited with critical notes and introduction by Sushil Kumar De --- xlviii 5, 120. Calcutta: N.C. Paul, 1923. Calcutta Oriental Series, 8.4
2. Edited and published by Sushil Kumar De. The place of publication
probably the same as for 1 above
1928. Contents: first two unmes as and that
part of the third unmesa which was available in the transcripts of both the
Jaisalmer, manuscript (Jl above) and the Madras transcript (M2).
The fourth unmesa
and the remaining part of the third unmes a were published in the appendix of this
edition only as far as they were intelligible in De's transcript of the Madras.
transcript. According to K (p. IX), an appendix in this edition contains De's
afterthoughts regarding several readings.
3. Vak roktijīvita of Kuntaka. Edited by Sushil Kumar De. Calcutta:
Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyaya.
1961. Contents: Essentially the same as in 2. Some
readings changed and information added. However, K (p. IX) thinks that this
edition "is such a mechanical reprint of the 1928 edition that the suggestions
noted in the appendix of the 1928 edition are also not fully carried out and it
contains several misprints though there is no errata."
