Introduction xlvii defends this theory while refuting the Sankhya dualism." X The materials used for the present edition of the text are the following two manuscripts and two earlier editions of the work. (A) Manuscripts S-Poona, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute: MS No. 163/1883-84. This has not been catalogued so far. So let us examine this a bit elaborately. Size: 33 c. m. by 16 c. m. Extent: Complete; 26 unnumbered leaves with no marginal lines; 13 lines to a page, 55 letters to a line, excluding the additions on sides and in between the lines. Fol. 24a-b & Fol. 25a bear 15-16 lines, 26b 11 lines Description: Country paper: Sãrada characters: writing generally uniform: wrong writings scored off and portions originally omitted are added on sides or above the lines with the indicator, Kakapāda in pro- per places. At time marginal notes are added. Age: The MS bears no date. But it has an old look. 1. Cf. (A) योऽपि कविदा श्रुत्वा जगतश्चेतनप्रकृतिकतां तद्ब लेनेव समस्तं जगत् चेतनमवगमिष्यामि etc. Sankara under न विलक्षणत्वा- दस्य तथात्वं च शब्दात् (BS II, i, 4). (B) योऽपि चेतनकारणश्रवणबलेनैव समस्तस्य जगतश्चेतनतामुत्प्रेक्षते etc. Sankara underu (BS II, i, 6). Cf. Ag. 's observations under ch. VII, 4-7.
