Review: रूपमञ्जरीनाममाला, ed. Dr. Bharati Shelat

The present work is a critical edition of an unpublished work on lexicography by Rupacandra (16th Century). It is based on four paper mss, two of which were procured from the L. D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad one from the B. J. Institute and one from BORI, PUNE (Photo state). The only complete ms is

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शेलत का समीक्षित संस्करण रूपचन्द्र (सोलहवीं शती) के अप्रकाशित कोश को चार कागज़ी प्रतियों से उद्धृत करता है, जिनमें एक ही पूर्ण है। दस वर्गों में एक सौ पचास पर्याय और पाँच नानार्थ, एक सौ तेईस अनुष्टुप् पद्यों में, बिना किसी क्रम के। बेटाई पाठान्तर-सूची की प्रशंसा करते हैं। Shelat's critical edition recovers an unpublished sixteenth-century lexicon by Rūpacandra from four paper manuscripts, only one of them complete. Ten vargas give a hundred and fifty synonyms and five homonyms in a hundred and twenty-three anuṣṭubh verses, arranged, she notes, at random. Betai praises her apparatus.

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