very correct original, it contains explanatory remarks here and there in the margin of the leaves. I have called this MS. B.
(B) A third MS., a very neatly written and trustworthy copy ; though bearing no date, it appears to be from 75 to 100 years old. This also belongs to a Shastri at Nassick. I have designated this MS. by the letter C.
(4) This also comes from Nassick. It bears the following colophon: -
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मयूरेश्वरपन्तेन श्रीमद्रामतनूभुवा। |
पिङ्गलोपनाम्नो धुण्डिराजस्येदं मौल्येन संपादितम्। This likewise is a very carefully copied MS, and corrected, like all the MSS. here described, secunda manu, with the aid of another MS. Though bearing no date, it appears equally old with the last preceding. It is accompanied by a Sanskrit translation of the Prakrit passages appended with a separate paging at the end. I have named this MS. D. These three MSS, B, C, D, were kindly procured for me by my friend Mr. Govind K. Sabde.
(5) Another MS, lent me by Mr. Ganesh Shastri Lele of Trimbakeswar. It bears the date Sal. 1710, i. e. A. C. 1789, as embodied in the colophon: व्योमेन्दद्रिकृभिर्युक्ते कीलके शुक्रमासगे । शुक्ले शिवतिथौ चान्द्रं नाटकं लिखितमिदम् । कृष्णसुतविधनाथेन लिखितम्. It is a very correct MS., containing 34 oblong leaves, of which the first is subsequently replaced by a different hand, marked at the end “गतपत्त्रप्रतिनिधिपत्रम्”. In the margin of the MS. are given now and then short explanatory notes. It is a very correct and trustworthy MS. I have called it E.
(6) The sixth was kindly lent me by Mr. Pandurang Narayan, Kirloskar of Gurlhasur, in the Belgaum Collectorate. It is an excellent MS., being written in a beautiful clear legible hand, remarkably correct, not only copied, it seems, by a conscientious and intelligent scribe, but also subsequently corrected by some one who understood the drama. The Prakrit
