250 Hara Prasad Shastri— Old Nepalese Manuscripts. [No. 3, 
two MSS. of this work, hut both of them are incomplete. Our MS. 
was transcribed in the Nepal year 476 corresponding to 1356 A.D 
and the palaeography exactly corresponds with that of the 14th 
century as given in Mr. Bendall’s Tables of letters and numerals. 
It was written at a time when all Nepal was in a state of confusion, 
owing to a Kosala invasion led by Hari Singh of Simraon. The 
MS. was copied by Kshemendra, the principal Achdrya of a Vihar 
named Yosvaccha (?), in the reign of Raiadhiraj-paramesvara-pamma- 
bhattaraka-sri-sri-vijaya-raja-deva— a king whom it is very difficult 
to identify. Mr. Bendall is perfectly right when he says that “the 
Chandra-vyalcarana follows Panini both in style and treatment and 
often in actual words, many of the Sutras being identical.” Ibis is 
also the case with many other grammars, some of which have been 
compiled simply to avoid the study of the cumbrous and diffuse 
Panini. Mr. Bendall also says that the Ghandra-vydharana is divided 
into six adhyayas , each of which again is sub-divided into four padas, 
though in my MS. the 6th adhyaya contains 3 padas only. 
The next work in importance is a complete copy (one leaf only 
missing) of the Amara Kosha written in the month of Chaitra in the 
24th year of Govindapala Deva whose accession to the throne of Magadha 
in the year 1161 is known from an inscription in Vol. Ill of Cun- 
ningham’s Archeological Report. Thus his 24th year corresponds with 
1185 A.D. I have compared portions of the MS. with the printed text 
of Colebrooke. In the printed text there are metrical colophons at the 
end of every kanda. But the MS. has no metrical colophons. The last 
colophon of the MS. is simply Linga-samgraTiah samdptah. 
Many lines and verses, which are known in latter MSS. as interpola- 
tions, do not occur in our MS.— for instance, the synonyms of 
Lakshmi occupy two lines in ordinary MSS. and printed texts of the 
Amara Kosha, whereas our MS. has only one line ; and many old 
pandits whom I consulted, and who in their early youth committed 
the whole of the work into memory, told me that the second line was 
always regarded as an interpolation. 
The fourth work is a copy of the Ohandakausilca by Arya 
Kshemisvara, dated 1331, A.D* So the writing of this work also 
falls within the period of confusion in Nepal. The Sanskrit scholar- 
ship of Nepal at that time was so poor that they could not correctly 
ascertain the name of the work, but labelled it, in the same character 
in which the whole book is written, as Ilarischandra-vikriya-pustakam. 
