being blank and left unnumbered. These folios were later renumbered as 72 to 103, the last folio (originally unnumbered) being also numbered this time and “vateśvarasiddhānta' written just below the folio-number 103. The renumbering is done in a different hand and only on the left hand margin at the top. The object of renumbering was evidently to provide continuous numbering to the whole manuscript. The discontinuous numbering, 1 to 71 and then 99 to 129, suggests that the manuscript consists of fragments of two different manuscripts, carefully put together to form one single manuscript. This is also proved by the fact that the last folio of the first of these two manuscripts, which bears the
folio-number 71, ends with :
(पाणभूगुता च साधयेव । तीक्षालिकादेणभूतोय.मज्पाचायंस्वविक्षेयवियुक्तमतत्भिन्नोत्प)
(दिक्त्थशशिनोपमोयंस्पष्टोफजीवाद्यमृतोर्कवत्स्पात् शीतगोरुदवदृग्विलग्नकात्षद्भयुग्दृ)
and the first folio of the second manuscript, which bears the folio number 99, begins with the repetition of the same matter. To get rid of this repetition the matter of folio 71 which is repeated on folio 99 has been enclosed within brackets ( ). The second manuscript has the bare folio-number at the top on the left hand margin and the folio-number with the word rāma just above it at the bottom on the right hand margin.
As regards the numbering of the verses, only the first 14 verses of Chapter I Section 1, 9 verses of Chapter I Section 2, and 4 verses of Chapter I Section 3, are numbered. The numbering of the first 14 verses is correct; that of the other verses, wrong. The verses numbered 26, 27, 28, and 29 are really the 36th, 37th, 38th and 39th verses when counted from the beginning. These are the last numbered verses.
The manuscript is written, as usual, along the length of the paper and the written matter is bordered on both sides of the pages by four vertical lines, pairwise in juxtaposition, throughout the manuscript.
The manuscript is incomplete, but as far as the Vateśvara-siddhānta proper is concerned it is complete and contain all the eight chapters of
