Desinammala

SR No.: 016019
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: R Pischel
Publisher: Department Public Instruction Bombay
Publication Year: 1938
Total Pages: 514
Language: English, Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 11 MB

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AE, and in the margin of the single folios of II. In i. 2 and viii. 77, it is styled Train, a name which is also intimated by the Mss. BCDFGI, as they call the vritti देशीशब्दसंग्रहवृत्ति. रत्नावली being too unexpressive a name, and ITHHIOT the usual appellation of works of this kind, I have followed the best Mss.
The Dešināmamāla has been discovered by Dr Bühler. In the Indian Antiquary II, p. 17 ff. (1874 ) he has given the first notice of it from the only Ms. then in his possession, the original of C. By his indefatigable researches which have already so much promoted Sanskrit philology, he succeeded afterwards in finding the materials described above, and in October 1877 he proposed to me by letter to publish the work in company with himself. I gladly accepted this offer, and we agreed that I should publish the text while Dr Bühler took upon himself to work out the glossary. Though I am fully aware of the deficiencies of this volume, yet I hope that in some degree at least, it will justify the confidence placed in me by Dr Bühler. My best thanks are due to him not only for his making over to me the Mss. he had collected with so much labour and care, but also for his reading one proof of this voluine and communicating to me some valuable remarks on my text. I have also to thank Mr Banks, the Superintendent of the Bombay Education Society's Press, for the extraordinary care with which he has carried on the printing and executed my corrections. Since I could read myself but one proof, it is chiefly due to him that comparatively few misprints will be found in these pages.
R. PISCHEL
Kiel, 15th of March 1880.