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ed on folios 38-53 at the right hand bottom as usual; thus we get only the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. The reason for this sort of numbering is evident; for even though the ms. seems to have been written in the same handwriting, there clearly was a break for a while after p. 31b with the last word catu being abruptly left unfinished. At some later date the writing was continued on the next 6 folios which are therefore separately numbered; here too on the last folio, i.e., on fol. 6b, there is again a break with the words yatha hi ma-, the last word being completed at some later date with lă sitāsitādikusumaiḥ etc. These last folios then are numbered as said above, i.e., every second folio is marked, the odd folios being left unmarked. The handwriting is uniformly small and neat in the first part, j.e., the part containing the text. In the second part it is so upto fol. 24a; from here onwards it grows almost double in size upto the very end, even though as said above the writer of the different parts is the same person. The size of this ms. is 14 X 44 inches and has about 7 or 8 lines to a page. The ms. is corrected in many places in its first part by the use of yellow pigment and seems to have been compared with the original, correct letters being noted just above the cancelled ones or sometimes in the margin. This attempt at correcting, however, seems to have been given up in the second part, i.e., in the commentary after folio 9. Part one of this ms. ends as follows:- Alati GT19:21: TĚCHOT SE FAITH | 71727 913 910 aghi THE GESHITTTTTFZİ $1741°EIYaTafiliatsga || All Y601 (o) The first half of the first stanza in part one and the whole of the first stanza in part second are copied out in red ink. The second part ends as follows in red ink :-97 3588 90a1& gareraarai Harga Tret: 1
22. The second copy of the Jesalmere palm leaf manuscript was prepared for Muni Shri Jinavijayaji of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan under his direct supervision at Jesalmere in March-April 1943. I have called it B. Its size is 114X9 inches; it has 147 folios in all, written on one side only. Each page contains about 17 lines on an average, the number of letters in each line being quite indefinite. The handwriting is rather big, but not uniformly so. Pages are continuously numbered; pages 1-42 contain the text and 44-147 contain the commentary. This copy is clearly more faithful to the original as it was prepared under the careful and critical eye of the great scholar Muni Shri Jinavijayaji. The scribe has only very rarely tried to correct his model. But afterwards, someone has tried to correct the very obvious mistakes caused by a wrong reading of the original manuscript. One of the commonest mistake of this kind is the reading of sa for sa and na for na and vice versa. The other similarly written lett
