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damaged that it turned to pieces even at a touch. The letters were faint and much confusing, as the copyist had transcribed it from a palm-leaf ms. The ms. was very incorrect and in some places words and phrases were wanting. The lacuna of six verses after the end of the ninth canto shows that one leaf was missing in the original palm-leaf ms. The task of editing was, therefore, very difficult. The following few examples will suffice to make this clear.
for 54adhichte ElligheRETTET I VI-59 Tani qaragiheth Filcthullafea VI-62 JT E fa riyadhai...VI-69 afgifter yours 41 hd arsh Hocaife I VII-29
The edition of the present work from such quite defective material would not have been undertaken at all but for the inducement to bring to light a historical work. Our thanks are due to Sheth Vadilal Hirachand, the keeper of the Bhandar of Vadi Parasvanātha's temple at Pa--an for kindly lending us the ms., though it was in a much-damaged condition.
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