Dear all,

As many will know, Devabodha is apparently the earliest commentator on the Mahābhārata whose work is (partially?) extant. A scan of R. N. Dandekar's 1941 edition of his Jñānadīpikā on the Ādiparvan can already be found on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279878/mode/2up. I have also seen references to a 1947 edition of the commentary on the Bhīṣmaparvan from S. K. Belvalkar, and a 1949 edition of the commentary on the Sabhāparvan from R. D. Karmarkar, but these do not seem to be readily available on the Internet. I would be very grateful if someone could provide me with scans of these two editions, or give me a hint as to how I might acquire one. I see that, in relatively recent times, Basile Leclère has been able to cite them in his article "New Light on Devabodha."

I would also be interested to know if anyone has been looking into the manuscript material recently—if, for example, unpublished MSS of his commentary for the other parvan-s are known.

Humbly yours,
Jason