closed his scholarly career, these MSS. fell into the hands of his servants, and it was from one of them that I bought this MS. along with many others. It is generally correct and the many marginal notes in it solve many a mystery for the scholar.
The third MS. used in collation was obtained ome three years ago. It is written by one Rama Kaula in Shārada characters and consists of 137 leaves of very old Kashmīrī paper with an average of 14 lines on a page. Though it bears several finishing touches from Pandit Sāhib Rāma, a famous Kashmiri scholar's pen, some mistakes creep into it unnoticed. The aforesaid scribe, viz., Rāma Kaula, himself adds at the end of the MS. that he finished copying it out on Wednesday, the seventh day of the bright half of the month of Bhadùn, 1887 anno Vikrami, corresponding to 1830 A. D. Though this MS. contains some marginal notes also, it cannot for that reason only claim to be equally useful with the foregoing one.
My thanks are due to Rājānaka Maheshvara, a Pandit of this Department, for the needed assistance he gave me in going through the proofs, as also to the Managing Proprietors, "Tattva-Vivechaka " Press, Bombay, for the alacrity and assiduity displayed by them in carrying this work through the Press.
