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MAŅIPATI-CARITA (ANONYMOUS) than the date of copying : Sam. 1850. If as is to be presumed it was modified at each successive copying it may in its original form well go back to the sixteeenth century A.D. In many passages the paraphrase enables the Prakrit to be restored with very small ground for uncertainty ; in others it is clear that the commentator was working with an already corrupt text.
