272 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1910. 



unanimously by all the commentators and translators. The 

 word ?n* here means " on the occasion/' t€ at the time. 1 ' On 

 this point the Gujrati translation of the Yoga-Sastra (page 3, 

 lines 14 — 17) published by BhimsiManik referred to above and 

 also the Gujrati translation of the Mahavira-Carita (page 21, 

 lines 15 — 20) (where the very same story has been given in the 

 very same words) published by the Jaina-Dharma-Prasaraka 

 Sabha of Bhavnagar, may also be consulted. And besides, all 

 the MSS. of the Mahavira-Carita that I have got with me have 



fMft not firtir, vide also recently published Mahavira-Carita, 

 Sarga 2, Sloka 63. 



Again in page 5, line 2, I read ^qfa«*rs^fa«mSTTf^wi Bwftl 

 get as I find it in all my MSS. except <* ^ and 9. The reading 

 of these three MSS. I have given in the foot-note. Grammatical- 

 ly ^MfatfT WT^f^^r are both correct according to the rule ^r- 

 ^W U a l ^ I ^ II (S. H.). I have consulted the MSS. of Mahavira- 

 Carita : there too I find the reading I have given in my text. 



" **ftrw«ftiWTO Wfrof^MW^hj " I do not find in any of my 

 MSS. of the Yoga-Sastra. 



Now <nfTO<ranft which the critic has in his MS. A for my 



reading inftrefa^^ 



correct, and I do not find it in any of my MSS. The reading 

 suggested by the critic on the authority of his MS. A is wrong 

 according to Hemacandra (vide his Linganu^asana, Dr. R. Otto 

 Franke's edition, page 13, line 16); ^Stfrqw^-^W is never 

 neuter, so according to the rule f^finrf^w^^rf TTf*T^t"*nfV*f ^ 

 WT*£ I fwfor Vagbhatalankara, 4th Pariccheda, 58th Sloka, 



with 



w^r 



eadin 



has 



«**r 



— , — v — ~, "— — — — 

 Again on the authority of 

 3ment wwr . As the word 



the critic failed to find out the meaning of the lines where it 



ac 



has 



The word in 



to mean the "temple of Sindhu-devl. " The same story of 



Bharata occurs again in Hemacandra' s Adlsvara-carita (vide 

 4th Saiga, 216th Sloka of the edition published bv the Jaina- 



Bhavna 



The 



meaning is clearly given by the line which reads f*ns*T faawpr 



*^— in the very same connection as will be 



