शार्ङ्गधरपद्धतिः /8

PREFATORY NOTE TO THE TEXT
 

 
This Edition of the Anthology of Sarngadhara is based upon

the following manuscripts:
 

 
A. An incomplete manuscript procured by me for the

Government of Bombay in the year 1886-7. Leaves 1 to 253,

stopping in the middle of our No. 4153. There is therefore no

date: and it can only be conjectured from the appearance of

the manuscript that it belongs to the 16th century. It is, so

far as I can judge, very correct.
 

 
B. A complete copy also procured by me in 1886-7 for the

Government of Bombay. Leaves 1 to 295, containing the book

up to our No. 4620, the proper end. Very beautifully written

by a Jain scribe: but neither so old nor so correct as A.
 

 
C. A manuscript belonging to my friend Pandit Durga-

prasad. Samvat 1776. Complete, and containing the Khadga-

pariksha chapter (placed by me at the end of the book as an

appendix) after the Turangaprasansa chapter, as in Aufrecht's

MS. C.
 

 
D. An incomplete copy lent to me by Mr. Jyeshtaram

Mukundji. Leaves 1 to 144, stopping in the middle of our
 

 
No. 1558.
 

 
E. A manuscript lent to me, through Mr. Jyeshtaram Mu-

kundji, our enterprising Sanskrit bookseller, by Seth Dhanaji

Mahayaji. Samyvat 1819. Complete.