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THE CRITICAL APPARATUS
 
The mss utilised for this edition are the following :-
 
DEVANAGARI
 
'Anandāśrama mss collection, Poona No 4459
 
ᎠᏎ
D₂ ==
 
=
 
No 4423
 
"
 
"
 
"
 
"
 
D3
 
=
 
"
 
No 7051
 
"
 
"
 
"
 
D 5
 
= A manuscript from Mangalvedhã deposited at the
Bhandarkar Institute, Poona.
 
D = A manuscript from Kolhapur obtained through
the courtesy of Pandit Khuperkaraśāstri, dated
Saka 1789.
 
D₁
 
=
 
Mg
 
=
 
GRANTHA
 
Adyar manuscript Library No. XXIV M 25
Government Oriental manuscripts library, Madras
No. D. 11923.
 
MALAYALAM
 
Bm Oriental Institute Library, Baroda, No. 6905 (b)
 
TELUGU
 
Mt Printed edition, Madras, dated 25 Feb. 1865.
 
Detailed account of the manuscripts
 
D1
 
Paper ms Size 8" x 4". Folios. 80. The numbering
of stanzas is irregular, No 68, coming in its own place and
again after 69, is numbered twice; and No 69 is again
repeated. The hand-writing is clear and legible, but is not
uniform; in folio 8, for example, the letters are so bold
that instead of an average of ten lines to a page and thirty-
two letters to a line we have only eight lines to a page and
twenty-six letters to a line; while on some folios the average
of lines dwindles to only seven and of letters to twenty
only. However, as the style of writing shows the same