in the form of a Table. A critical edition of this Table, which begins ith the sentence silam1 ।rdjॉ07 5riye, has been added to the present edition as Appendix 1. ८d l0c mnemonic expressions independent of each other and having no contextual sequence. Quite often, they do not have any logical sense either. This nature of these sentences, apart from creating conditions for errors to crep in, also debars the correction of such errors with reference to the context or grammar. The same holds good rutatis 1714tardis in the verification of doubtful readings. Two methods have been enunciated in the Imanuscripts of these Sentences for the correction of errors and for the clarification of doubts. These methods have been duly 10ticed at the close of the edition of the Sentences and have been demonstrated by concrete examples Manuscript Material Text : The present edition of Spl1410c01d/apti is based on its only available manuscript which originally belonged to the collection of the Namputiri brahman house of Kuta11ur Mana in S. Malabar (Kcrala) and is now deposited in the Kerala University (Oriental Research Institute and Mss. Library, Trivandrum, as its Ms. No. 1055 A. The work is inscribed in Malayalam script on the first two folios of this palm-leaf codex of Jyotisa works, 10'x2}", with 11 1ines a page and about 45 letters per line. The mamsucript is old and slightly damaged and the edges are all frayed. The writing is small, clear and inked. It has passed through the hands of a revisor whose corrections can be identified by their not being inked. The text presented is generally correct and free from errors . Besides the Splurac८॥1drapti, which is catalogued as A, the codex contains the C. M4/1॥rtara tr1d by Govinda Parame5vara ; E. $04015ak/riyayidhi ; F. D. Acard.50ाigral८ by Mult2rt(0p47casika ; (G. (Willip1altli-Carldrawakya11i) is based on four independent manuscripts called here A, B, C, D, all in palm-leaf , inscribed in Malayalam Script on account of its textual purity, and C belong to the (Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library, Kerala University ,
