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छंदसां विचयं व्याख्यास्यामो | गायत्र्युग्गिनुष्टुव् बृहती पंक्तित्रिजगतीति सप्तार्याण्येकाक्षरपदादीनि चतुरक्षराधिकानि प्रतिछंदसं गायत्र्यादीनाम् .......
It ends thus :−(sic) यथा छंदोभिराकुंना देवान्मत्स्यानिवोदके नापश्यत्पुरा मृत्युरमृतत्वं गतो गताः । छंदोविदेव विस्तु धर्मतस्तद्गुणाश्रितः । छंद । सामेति सालोक्यममृतत्वं च गच्छतीत्याह गायों गार्ग्यः ॥ ८ ॥ इति उपनिदानं समाप्तं ॥ श्री संवत १६७५ वर्षे श्रश्वनबुदे २ गुरे त्र० शीवदाससुत त्र० मांझां (2 or डां ) गल्यखितं यदि शुद्धं शु.
On the title page is written probably by a later hand: ( sic )
उपनिदान ८ पत्राणि ८
तत्र० केशवजीसूत् रतनजीनी पोथी सही ॥ गीरधरजी प्रभुजी पाठनाथं ॥
त्रा० ( name illegible ) ने भाग श्रावा
Another hand, probably of our own Library, has written on the same page: ७० उपनिदानसूत्रम्
After the colophon, given above, a later hand has written one Jine which is not quite distinct. It inentions त्रिपाठि केशव and संवत् १६९३ (१).
The whole work is divided into eight sections or chapters. The ending of the chapters is indicated only by the number, in figure, of the particular chapter; for example, the end of the first chapter is shown only by the number painted red. The end of chapter VIII is indicated similarly by ॥ ८ ॥ after gang mat mid: (see the ending of the MS. given above).
The text of the Sutras, as is evident from a few lines of the beginning given above, is given continuously with sandhi and without any break. Nor Even the four are they numbered in any way.
