colophon verse

[Madhav Deshpande]

If I were to emend the verse, it would read:
bhagnap.r.s.thaka.tigriivaasthirad.r.s.tir adhomukha.h |   [read:
-asthirad.r.s.tir-]
du.hkhena likhita.m grantha.m putravat paripaalayet ||

The first part of the verse especially seems apt, because a few
years ago I almost broke my back lifting a heavy box of books and had to
be rushed to a hospital.
                                        Madhav Deshpande

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Arlo Griffiths wrote:

> Dear INDOLOGISTs,
>
> If anyone knows of other attestations of the following verse from a colophon
> of an Orissa ms., I would be very grateful to hear about it:
>
> bhagnap.r.s.thaka.tigriivasthiirad.r.s.tir adhomukha.h |   [read: -sthira-]
> du.hkhena likhita.m grantha.m putravat paripaalayet ||
>
> There also seems to be a variant (in 2 other mss.), with something like
> TULVA/TULII/TULAAd.r.s.tir, but I find the ak.saras hard to read there, and
> cannot see what is meant.
>
> With thanks,
>
> -- Arlo Griffiths
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