28. Notes on the newly-found Manuscript of Chatuhsatika 
by Aryadeva. 
By MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HaRapRasAD SHASTRI. 
A batch of palm-leaves came to my hand, containing frag- 
ments of four different works. One fragment of this has seve- 
ral colophons, purporting to say that the leaves belong to some 
commentary on Aryadeva’s CatuhSataka. This roused my 
curiosity, and I carefully examined the leaves. I found that 
only twenty-three leaves belong to Aryadeva and his com- 
mentator. The last possessor of the manuscript had obliterated 
all the original leaf-marks, except one, and had put in new leaf- 
marks of his own from 16 to 38, the leaf containing the an- 
cient leaf-mark being the 15th. The leaf marked 29 by the late 
owner does not belong to this work at all, but to some work on 
grammar. So I did not count it among the 23 leaves, which 
really belong to Aryadeva’s work. 
The leaves were not in order. The first chapter ended in 
the 36th leaf, the third chapter in the 15th, the fourth chapter 
foolseap sheets in order. The 20th leaf came before the 
18th: they are consecutive. The 24th and the 25th leaves, on 
examination, were found also to be consecutive. The 21st and 
the 19th are also found to be consecutive. The 22nd, the 34th 
and the 38th appear to be consecutive, but I can not be posi- 
tive on the point that the last two are so. The 26th, the 27th, 
As the 3rd chapter came to an end in leaf 15, which alone 
in these leaves bears the ancient leaf-mark, I thought the aver- 
age length of chapters to have been five leaves ; and as there are 
that average, eighty leaves. But as the last eight chapters 
are philosophical and controversial, and therefore, are likely to 
have been longer than the first eight which are dogmatic and 
religious, I would give them a leaf more each, so the length of 
the work would be about 88 leaves The fragment in hand 
therefore is only a fourth of the whole work. But as the colo- 
