काव्यपरीक्षा: Kavyapariksha- Compiled By Srivatsalanchan Bhattacharya (With Self Knowledge Instinct)

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THE text of the Kavyapariksā of Srivatsalāñchana Bhattācārya is based on the following four Mss. which are fully collated. They are:-

A-This is India Office Ms. Catalogue No. 1188. It has 71 folios, 8 inches by 4 inches. It is written in clear Devanagari characters of about 1550 A.D., as the entry in the Catalogue indicates. Each folio has got 12 lines to a page. This Ms. seems to have been copied from an older Ms. by some three or four scribes working in a co-operative spirit, as is clear, first by change of hand and pen, and secondly by the fact that portions of some folios are left blank even in the middle of a word followed by its continuation on the next folio without any break. Compare, for instance, folios 20 and 21; 29 and 30; 43 & 44 etc., where the first folio is left partially blank in the middle of a word, and the text is continued on the following folio. At least three different copyists seem to have prepared this Ms. They all seem to be scholars and not merely copyists well-versed in the subject matter as certain remarks such as इति रघो; इति माधे, which remarks are found only in this Ms. but not in the remaining Mss. The reason seems to be that they got the older Ms. in their hand as loan for a short while only, and so were in a hurry to complete the copying work. This haste is also responsible for several lacunae which are not found in others.