Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 1, Part 2 (1960)
67 (of 150)
External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Feb., 1960] SOURCE OF UJJAIN SARAD膧 MANUSCRIPT 171 The reading of all the Mss. except D and 艢 is the same
as the above An. reading. The reading of the first line is
uniform in all the Mss. including D and S; but the reading
of the second line in D and $ differs from each other
as follows:-
D
S
啶い啶膏啶む 啶啶班ぞ啶啶� 啶班ぞ啶溹ぞ啶ㄠ 啶膏啶膏啶ムぞ啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶膏啶い啶� 啶掂 啶曕げ啷� 啷�
啶啷嵿啶膏啶む 啶啶班ぞ啶啶� 啶班ぞ啶溹ぞ啶ㄠ 啶膏啶膏啶ムぞ啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶膏啶い啶� 啶掂 啶曕げ啷� 啷�
[ [yatasta峁� pr膩pya r膩j膩na峁� sa峁僺th膩峁� pr膩psyati vai kalau ||
yaj帽asta峁� pr膩pya r膩j膩na峁� sa峁僺th膩峁� pr膩psyati vai kalau ||
[] Here the S-reading 褔 (yaj帽as) in place of the D-
reading (yatas) seems to be corrupt in this context.
It may be a transcriptional error of the S膩rad膩 scribe
who seems to have confused the Devan膩gar墨 letter
(t) of the original with the S膩rada symbol for the
letter), and then to have given play to his intelli-
gence in emending the reading 'yajas' (thus formed) as
'yaj帽as'. Thus the process might have been-
啶い啶膏 ( [yatas (] yatas) > 啶啶膏 ( [yajas (] yajas) > 啶啷嵿啶膏 ( [yaj帽as (] 测补箩帽补蝉).闭
Now in both these instances the corrupt reading of 艢 must
be the outcome of the confusion between the Devan膩gar墨 letter
a and the S膩rada symbol for . The symbols of these two
letters of the two scripts, Devanagar墨 and 艢膩rad膩, though
having divergent values, must have had some similarity, so
that the confusion between them might have been possible. In
this 艢arad膩 Ms. the letter is written somewhat like the
Devanagari and has no resemblance with the Devanagari
letter J. So the confusion between this S膩rad膩 symbol of letter
and the Devanagari symbol is not possible. Therefore it
may be inferred that 艢 is not the direct descendant of the
Devan膩gar墨 original. Moreover, we find this same form of the
艢盲rad膩 symbol for in a manuscript of the Atharva-Veda and
also in another manuscript of the Sakuntala, both Mss. belonging
to the 16th century A. D. So $ might have been written near
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