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in the printed edition brought forth by Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Pandita Durga Prasada. After the above colophon in some 

 manuscript he consulted, at the end of the sixth chapter, where 

 it comes to a close, the following few lines are found: 



This latter alone is found in the manuscript belonging to 

 Jambunatha Bhatta of Tanjore (Report on Sanskrit manu- 

 scripts in Southern India by E. Hultzsch, Ph.D., Government 

 Epigraphist, Madras, No III), and several others noticed by 

 Prof. S. R. Bhandarkar, M.A., in Rajputana (Report of second 

 tour in 1904-5, 190-6, page 48). As the latter part of the 

 colophon is found in many manuscripts in which the name of 

 Yasodhara is not mentioned, the probable conclusion appears 

 to be the Kamasutra wa3 for the first time copied with the 

 Jayamangala for the Bharatl Bhandngara of Sri Visaladeva 

 by Yasodhara, a scribe attached to that library, while before 

 that the text and the commentary were separate. 



Now, Mr. Guleri has proved beyond all doubt that the 

 author of Jayamangala on Kamasutra was the same as the 

 author of Jayamangala on the Nitisara of Kamandaka — 

 whatever be his name. But there is another Jayamangala 

 which he has lost sight of, viz. the commentary on Bhatti- 

 kavya. Long before the publication of Nitisara of Kamandaka 

 in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, Mr. Ranganathasvami 

 pointed out in his paper on Jayamangala in the Mitragoshthl l 

 (and all 1 have done in this paper is simply to combine the two 

 papers on the same subject), that the author of Jayamangala 

 on Bhattikavya is identical with the author of the commentary 

 on Kamasutra. The similarities of style pointed out by him 

 are striking. Compare, for instance, the introductory verses of 

 the three Jayamangalas. 





1 A monthly paper edited formerly by Pandeya Sriramavatarasarma, 

 M.A., &c, and Sri Vidhusekharabhattacharya at Benares, now no longer 

 issued. T he paper on Jayamangala appeared on page 338, No, 12, Vol. II 

 for 1904-5. 



