[INDOLOGY] Request for identification of two manuscripts

Andrew Ollett andrew.ollett at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 13:14:40 UTC 2018


Dear Dr. Patel,

The first work is the Prākr̥tapiṅgala (or Prākr̥tapaiṅgala), which is
available in a very nice edition by Bhola Shankar Vyas from 2007. It is a
work of Chandaḥśāstra, although its language is generally more Apabhramsha
than Prakrit.

Andrew

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 7:57 AM Dhaval Patel via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Respected Scholars,
>
> I am seeking the help of scholars who are well versed in Prakrit and
> related languages to help me in classifying or correcting the data of the
> below mentioned two manuscripts of Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan.
>
> 1. https://archive.org/details/chandahshastra-CGV-VRT-P0001
> 2. https://archive.org/details/vairagyashataka_-CGV-VRT-P0002
>
> The details shown on the information slip pasted on the books are as
> follows:
> 1. Title - ChandaHSAstra. Incomplete. Folio 1 missing.
> 2. Title - vairAgyaSataka (?) - an Ardh. work with Gujarati narratives.
> Fairly old. First folio missing.
>
> I can ascertain that the narratives in the second work are in old Gujarati
> language.
>
> I am not able to read Prakrit. May I request the scholars who can read the
> language to shed some more light on the content / author / title of the
> works or ascertain that they are correctly reflected in the information
> slip? This would make the metadata of the scanned manuscript better and
> help others.
>
> --
> Dr. Dhaval Patel, I.A.S
> Collector and District Magistrate, Surat
> www.sanskritworld.in
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