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Preface
ones. By homogenious works I mean a text and its exegesis. Just as a commentary and its super-commentary are homogenious works as they deal with one and the same text, so are two different commentaries of one and the same text.' A manuscript containing heterogenious works is here named as composite (see p. 112 where a Ms. dated 1491 is noted). This name can be applied even to a Ms. having a text and its commentary, even when one does not follow the other or to a Ms, which has two commentaries on one and the same text. I have however distinguished these two types of composite Mss. by using brackets for the former one. At times, in the first type of a composite Ms. I had to include commentaries pertaining to a work or works forming a heterogenious group ( see p. III).
The fourth rule of Appendix V mentioned on p. 109 may be here expounded as under :
If there are more than one Ms. bearing the same date and if one or more of them contain homogeneous works, these works along with the rest are arranged according to the Nagari alphabet e.g. those of two Mss. dated 1469 (p. III), works of Mss. dated 1550 (p. 117)( one of these is composite ), 1650 (p. 119 ) and 1661 (p. 120 ). But if one of these composite Mss., contains heterogeneous works, they are given a priority over the rest.
In Appendix VI there is given a list of chronograms. This when combined with the corresponding lists for Vols. XVIII & XIX will be fairly representative. The word "chronogram " is explained in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English as under :
"Phrase etc. of which the Roman-numeral letters added give a date, as LorD haVe MerCle Vpon Vs=50+ 500+5+ 1000 + 1004 1+1+5+5=1666."
I use the phrase "word-chronogram ” 10 denote a numeral expressed by means of words arranged as in the place-value notation. Herein words signify names of objects, beings or concepts which connote numbers either naturally or according to Vardika
1 In the Ms. No. 619, the com, is followed by the text. In the Ms. No. 503, the com is followed by another com, and itself.
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| SR No. | 018045 |
| Book Title | Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 5 Ten Appendices |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hiralal R Kapadia |
| Publisher | Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |
| Publication Year | 1954 |
| Total Pages | 330 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Catalogue & Catalogue |
| File Size | 11 MB |