D. This is a pada-manuscript belonging to the Deccan College at Poona, collated while in Roth's possession at Tübingen. It is unaccented in book xviii. It is very incorrectly written, and its obvious errors were left unnoted. It gives a pada-text even for book xix., but not for the peculiar parts of xx. ⌊The Index to the Catalogue of 1888 of the Deccan College mss. gives only two complete pada-mss. of the AV., to wit, the ms. listed as III. 5 on p. 13, and the one listed as XII. 82 on p. 174. The Catalogue gives as date of the latter saṁvat 1720; and as date of the former, saṁvat 1741. In the Collation-Book, Whitney gives at the end of book xx. the colophon of his D. with the dates saṁvat 1741, çake 1606. This agreement in date seems to identify his D. with the ms. III. 5. That ms. is a part of the collection of 1870-71, made by Bühler; it is booked as consisting of 435 pages and as coming from Broach or Bharūch.⌋
L. A pada-manuscript of xix. in the Berlin Library was apparently copied from D. while it was still in India (this copy is denoted by L.). ⌊It is described by Weber, Verzeichniss, vol. ii., p. 79, under No. 1486, with details confirmatory of the above.⌋
K. By this sign is meant a manuscript from Bikaner containing the complete saṁhitā-text; it was for some time in the hands of Roth at Tübingen, and was consulted by means of a list of some 1200 doubtful readings sent to Tübingen and reported upon. These concerned books i.-xviii. alone; xix. and the peculiar parts of xx., not admitting of treatment in that way, did not get the benefit of the collation. The manuscript claims to be written in saṁvat 1735, çake 1600 (A.D. 1678-9), by Eṁmvāgaṇeça, under king Anūpasiṅha, at Pattana-nagara.
Accompanying this is a pada-manuscript written by the same scribe, but without accents. Where there is occasion for it, this is distinguished by the designation Kp.
2. The Stanza çáṁ no devī́r abhíṣṭaye as Opening Stanza
⌊It was doubtless the initial stanza of the text in the Kashmirian recension.—This stanza, which appears as i. 6. 1 of the Vulgate, doubtless stood at the beginning of the Pāippalāda text. In 1875, Roth, in his AV. in Kaschmir, p. 16, remarks upon the general agreement in the tradition according to which çáṁ no etc. was the initial stanza of Pāipp., and not yé triṣaptā́ḥ as in the Vulgate; and regrets all the more on that account that the first leaf of the Pāipp. ms. is lost.⌋
⌊Çáṁ no as initial stanza of the Vulgate text.—Whitney notes that this stanza is also found prefixed to the text of the Vulgate in four of the mss. used by him, to wit, I. and R. and O. and Op. Thus at the beginning of I. we have the stanza çáṁ no devī́r abhíṣṭaye entire, and then yé triṣaptā́ḥ.⌋
