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161 NCC I, 465. Check-list Nr. 43. J. Filliozat, Liste Nr. 8 (incomplete). STMI 81–82. Cat. Madras Nr. R 3699 contains the commentary on Sū.1–10 (the beginning is missing). Cat. Tanjore Nr. 11033. *List Trivandrum Nr. 2305 A (mentioned in the Check-list, Nr. 43; the NCC records two Trivandrum MSS). P. Cordier (1901c: 186–187), who possessed a copy of the Tanjore MS (A. Roṣu (1977: 185), says that Hāṭakāṅka's commentary on the Nidānasthāna is closely related to Aruṇadatta's commentary, although it makes a more primitive impression; he regarded it as not improbable at all that Hāṭakāṅka is a surname of Aruṇadatta, since the latter was the son of Mṛgāṅkadatta, whose name also contains the element aṅka. Cordier mentions in an earlier article (1896: 6) that A.C. Burnell (1880: 65) describes a MS (Nr. 10787) of a Sarvāṅgasundarī by Hāṭakāṅka, in Telugu script, the akṣaras of which are not blackened with ink; P. Cordier expressed the opinion that Burnell must have taken the indication hāṭakāṅka, which means 'written without ink' for the name of the author, and that this MS contains Aruṇadatta's Sarvāṅgasundarī. P. Cordier, however, was obviously wrong; the MS he refers to (P.P.S. Sastri, 1933, Nr. 11033 = A.C. Burnell's Cat. Tanjore, Nr. 10787) contains Hāṭakāṅka's Dīpikā on the Nidānasthāna, which simply consists of an abridgement of the text of the Hṛdaya. P. Cordier's views on the identity of Hāṭakāṅka and Aruṇadatta can also be discarded because these commentators are separately quoted by Parameśvara and Śrīdāsa. Hāṭakāṅka's Dīpikā is also mentioned by P.V. Sharma (AVI 175), H. Parāḍkar (1939: 29), G.V. Sastry (1959), and C. Vogel (1965: 11).