पृष्ठम्:Rekha Ganita.djvu/१९

«  • • well Thereupon I asked Mr. Dhruva's widow if she had any other manuscripts <^ the work with her, and she handed over to me two manuscripts. One of these breaks up at the end of the fifth book and is without figures. The second has figures here and there ; but they are in most cases incorrect and without letters. This manuscript is also incom- plete. It goes almost to the end of the third book and then begins with the 15th proposition of the tenth book and comes up to the end of the work. Thus neither of the two manu- scripts was of great use to me. I then secured other manu- scripts of the work and two very valuable editions of Euclid from England and settled the text and the figures with the help of these. It is thus clear that Mr. I^ruva did not live to do anything more than get a manuscript of the work copied by an Amreli S^&stil It is a matter of regret that the work did not get through his scholarly hands. The collation of Mss. from different parts of India to settle the text, the construction of figuresi the English notes, the Critical Notice of Manuscripts and the Introduction, all this being my work, the shorteom* ings of the present edition, whatever they may be, are wholly attributable to me. The present edition is based upon the following manuscripts : — ( I ) The copy of a manuscript, received firom Mr. Dhruva's widow. I suppose it is the same manuscript that Mr. Dhruva speaks of in his *Barod& State Delegate'. *'I owe it," says he, "to my firiend, B&o Bahadur. Justice Jan&rdan Sakh&r&m G&dgil, B. A., LL. B., F. T. S., of the High Court of Judicature, Barod& State, to be able to present this wOTk to the learned assembly here I can do no better than give in the words of Mr. Justice GMU%il himself how the manuscript of the work under notiee was brcMight to Ugbt. The original Ms. was found in the Libnoy of the late celebrated B&l Oangiirdhar S'&strt J&mbhekar by Ab& S'&stri Bakre. I got a copy made of the Ms.* — which original, kindly lent to me by the gentleman, I hold in my hand at present. Mr. Justice G&dgil's copy was made in Y. S. 1942 ( A. C. 1886 ). The date of the original Ms. now with me is Y. S. 1886 (A. D. 1830) Eartek ( Sans.