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six problems, and the work closes with a tribute of regard to the author’s 
instructor, Sila Thera. 
The text has been collated from several Burmese MSS. and compared 
with two other valuable copies, one, a transcript from a Singhalese MS. in 
the India Office, kindly presented to me in 1870 by the late Professor 
Childers ; the other, a tract, derived from two Singhalese MSS. by Profes¬ 
sor Joh. Minay eft, published in 1869 by the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
of St. Petersburg. Mr. Childers’ copy has 138 verses, but the last two are 
merely portions of postscripts to other treatises of the author. Mr. 
Minayeff’s text from wrong numbering has only 119 verses, though the 
matter forms 136. In this sketch C stands for the first of these, and M 
for the second. 
There are several Pali commentaries on Vuttodaya, and glosses on the 
commentaries. It is believed, the 
with in Burma. 
following comprise all that are to be met 
1 . 
Vuttodaya Tiled, 
by Nava Yimalabuddhi at Pugan du¬ 
ring the reign of the Burman king 
Kyatswa, circa 1212 A. D. 
2. 
Cliandosarattha , 
by Sadhamma nana at Pugan during 
the same period. 
3. 
„ Tiled, 
by the same author. 
4. 
Ch a -ppaccaya, 
by the same author. 
5. 
Vacanatth aj o tiled, 
by Vepulla at Pugan during the same 
period. 
6. 
„ Tikd, 
by the same author. 
7. 
Kavisara, 
by Dhammananda at Pegu during the 
reign of the Pegu monarch Dham- 
marajadhiraja, circa 1385—1421 
A. D. 
3. ,, Tiled , by Buddhadhata during the same pe¬ 
riod. 
Of these, the three principal commentaries, viz., the second, fifth, and 
seventh have been consulted, and are referred to under the abbreviations 
of Chan do., Vac., and Kav. 
My grateful acknowledgements must here be made to the subjoined 
works from which I have derived great assistance ; C. P. Brown’s Sanskrit 
Prosody Explained; Weber’s Ind. Stud., Vol. VIII; Colebrooke’s Life 
and Essays, Vol. Ill; and the translation of the Vrittaratnakara now 
passing through the pages of the Pandit at Benares. 
A table of the prosodial feet is given at page 391, they are denoted in 
these pages by the initial letter of their symbols in capitals. A single long 
syllable is marked G, a spondee Ga; a breve is marked L, a pyrrhic La. 
