MS Pune BORI 143-1883-84

Country paper. Devanāgarī characters. Handwriting bold, clear, and uniform. Borders ruled with double red lines. Yellow pigment used for deletions. Red chalk smeared over the aphorisms. Occasional marginal corrections. Fol. 1a bears a number of verses as follows:

svalpākṣaram asandigdhaṃ sāravad viśvatato mukhaṃ /

astobhknavadyaṃ ca sūtraṃ sūtravido viduḥ //1//

viṣayaḥ saṃśayaś caiva pūrvapakṣas tathottaram /

nirṇayaṃ ceti pañcāṅgaṃ prāñco 'dhikaraṇaṃ viduḥ //2//

svavilasitam arthaṃ hṛdi nidhāya prakārāntareṇopapādanam upoddhātaḥ /

cintāṃ prakṛtisiddhyarthām upodghātaṃ vidur budhāḥ /

Age: Fairly old.

Author: Rāmānanda Sarasvatī