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An Interpolation in some MSS. of the Bṛhatkathāmañjarī

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

M. B. Emeneau
M. B. Emeneau
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Yale University
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At the end of their edition of K's Brhatkathā-mañjarī (Kāvyamālā 69) Śivadatta and Parab print an appendix of 78 ślokas, which purports to be the twenty-fourth story of the Vetālapañcavimśati. It was not found in their MSS. but was supplied to them by T. S. KuppūsvāmĪ from a Tanjore MS. Speyer in his “Studies about the Kathāsaritsāgara” (Verh. d. K. Ak. v. Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Afd. Lett., N.R. viii, 5, p. 14, n. 1) says that he has “a strong presumption that this portion does not belong to the work of K”. That such is the case can be proved conclusively.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , October 1933 , pp. 821 - 830
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1933

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page 823 note 1 For a fuller account of these MSS. see my article “Kṣemendra as Kavi”, JAOS., 53, part 2, pp. 124–143.

page 824 note 1 My thesis “Jambhaladatta's Version of the Vetālapañcavimśati” (presented in 1931 at Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and not yet published) in its introduction treats this matter of the stories included in Jambhaladatta's version.