xviii. ÅRYABHATÎYA pays obeisance to God Ganapati, the tutelary deity of the original owner of the ms., viz. the Raja of Edappalli. The works contained in the codex are : A. Aryabhatiya with the com. of Sūryadeva-yajvan ; B. Laghubhāskariya of Bhāskara II ; C. Tantrasaṁgraha of Nīlakaņțha Somayājin ; D. Mahābhaskariya of Bhāskara II ; E. Sūryasiddhānta ; F. Goladīpikā of Parameśvara ; and G. Siddhantasekhara of Sripati. B. Ms. No. 5957-B, procured from the scholarly family of Vattappalli Matham, Sucindram, near Kanyakumari in Tamilnadu, 72 ff., 35 cm. x 4 cm., 9 lines a page with about 40 letters a line. The writing is very legible, inked and revised. The leaves do not look old, certainly not older than about a hundred years. In continuation of the work, the ms. contains two extraneous pieces of astronomical matter, at the end of which a date for the completion of transcription is mentioned as Kollam era 941, mesu-masa, 24th day, Thursday, Purvasadha, Uttarapaksa, (gap)-tithi, forenoon. The blank space for the tithi would imply that the said date does not apply to the present ms., for the scribe who knew all the other details cannot fail to know the tithi as well, and the comparatively recent appearance of the manuscript confirms that this date should have been that of the original manuscript from which it had been copied : the spot where the tithi had been written in the original should have been damaged in that ms. and hence a gap is shown in its place in the present manuscript. The codex contains another work catalogued as “A. Aspadhyaystltranukramani', being an alphabetical index of the satras of Panini's Astadhyayi, with the adhyaya, pada and sutra references noted against each entry. C. Ms. No. C. 2320-A, described in the Des. Cata. of Skt. Mss. of the Curator’s Office, Triyandrum, Vol. IV, pp. 1362-63, under Cata. No. 643-A, 84ff., 50 cm.X4 cm., with 6 to 8 lines a page and about 60 to 70 letters a line. The ms. had been procured from the private collection of a namputiri brahman, by name Agni Sarman Bhattatiri. It is very carefully inscribed in a readable but unshapely hand. The lines in this long palmleaf ms. are especially straight and well spaced out. The ms. has an oldish appearance and the leaves have been darkened by age and are extremely brittle. The rounded corners and the enlarged string-hole caused by the frequent drawing of the string against the leaves attest to the profuse use to which the manuscript has been put, obviously, for study. The scribe is mentioned, in a post-colophonic statement, as Rama, the scion of a royal family. Cf.
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