2023-03-03 05:09:20 by Alok Kumar
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The Madhurāvijayam or V
by Gangā Dēvi was discovered by accident amidst a
heap of wornout palm-leaf manuscripts as part of a
series of Sanskrit works; and, but for the careful
scrutiny of the Head Pandit of the curator of Sanskrit
Mss. Trivandrum, it would have gone the way of many
other works of the past which are not available to us.
The original is in grantha characters and is full of
errors. The manuscript, as discovered, was incomplete,
with ten leaves missing in the middle and many slokas
incomplete in the available portion. Though it is not
possible to say how many slokas have been lost, it is
fairly certain that the complete work might have in-
´
cluded at least seventy more verses than are extant
now.
The following analysis will show the number of
verses available for scholars in all the nine (?) cantos
of the work.
Canto
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
concluding
canto
No. of slokas
in the canto
75
42
47
83
76
69
not definitely
known but
not definitely known but possibly 51
available 36
available 42
521
No. of slokas
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
nil
40
30
not known
not known
not known
not known
70
No. of slokas
mutilated or
4
3
5
6
8
8
7
6
11
58