available with the Oriental Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, I requested the Curator of that Library to send me a transcribed copy of that particular portion where the lack of continuity was noticed. In the meanwhile, Sri.P. S. Rama Sastri himself was able to discover that the missing portion was found after a few pages as noted in the foot-note in page 223. When the transcribed copy from the Oriental Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, was received, it was found to agree with the press-copy as edited by the editor. Evidently in the original palm-leaf bundle, a few folios should have been noticing misplaced and the copyist had transcribed the same without noticing the wrong arrangement of the folios. Similar instances of lack of continuity were found in a number of places in the manuscript, and all of them have been corrected by the editor and noticed in the foot-notes. I wrote to the Curator of the Oriental Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, to let me know whether he could arrange to have the press-copy collated at his Library itself. In spite of my two reminders, no reply was received from him and hence it was not possible to have the advantage of collating the press-copy with another manuscript available at Trivandrum.
My thanks are due to Sri Narayana Namboodaripad who kindly lent his manuscript to this Library for transcription and also to Sri V. R. Kalyanasundara Sastrigal, Pandit of this Library in seeing the work through the press.
