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With regard to the provenance of the Manuscripts it is unfortunately impossible to give much definite information. 'A,' 'C,' 'D,' 'E,' belong to the India Office. 'B' comes from Calcutta and 'H' from Bombay. 'F,' 'G,' 'I,' 'J' come from Madras. The Telegu character of 'D' and the Grantha and Tamil characters of 'F' and the Grantha character of 'G,' 'I' and 'J' point to their South Indian origin. 'B' seems to have been written in Bengal and 'H' in Northern India. In spite of their Devanāgarī character, certain orthographic peculiarities, such as *yīṣa* for *īṣa* and *yeka* for *eka*, 'A,' 'C' seem to be copies of South Indian originals; or more probably, they were transcribed by South Indian copyists.