Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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889.)
III. 4 Malasätras
265
The text together with its Sanskrit commentary styled as Kathākośa is published in two parts as Nos. 77 and 87 respectively, in the Sheth D. L. J. P. F. Series, in A. D. 1932 and 1937 respectively.
The second edition of a Gujarāti translation of the Kathākośa is published by Maganlal Hathising, Ahmedabad, in A. D. 1902.
For quotations see Peterson, Report IV, p. 110, and Mitra, Notices VIII, p. 163.
For additional Mss. see B. B. R. "A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 444.
भरतेश्वरबाहुबलिस्वाध्याय Bharatesvara-Bāhubalisvādhyāya कथाकोशसहित
with Kathākosa
333. No. 889
1871-72. Size.- log in. by 41 in. Extent.— 249 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 48 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with occasional carats ; small, legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; white paste, too; fol. 1a blank ; foll. 54-249 also numbered as 1, 2, etc. in the interlinear space; this Ms. contains the text as well as the commentary ; both complete; in the latter we have kathās of Silavati, Nandayanti, Rohiņi, Ratīsundari and Srimati, though these female saints are not mentioned in the text; these kathās commence after the completion of those of the crowned queens of Kțşņa ; edges of the first and last foll.
slightly worn out; condition on the whole good. Age.- Fairly old.