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Grammar
पादप्रकरणसंगति
Pādaprakaraṇasangati
292 No. 40
1875-76 Size - 14 in. by 6 in. Extent -3 leaves, 12 lines to a page, 44 letters to a line. Description - Country paper, Devanāgarl characters. Bold legible
and correct writing with a few lacunae in places,
Complete. Age -New in appearance. Author - Joga(Yoga)raja. This Jogaraja is probably the same
teacher of Rhetorics about whom it is said -
भविस्मृतस्वजननीजनक्षीररसा अपि । बटवो निन्यिरे येन सूक्तिदेवीरसज्ञताम् ॥
(श्रीकण्ठचरित 25. 106) He was a contemporary of Mankha, the author of st
कंठचरित between 1135-45. Subject — The work is intended to explain the easiest method of
teaching veryfer to young pupils, asking them first to master the ariths and then to follow a certian method of instruction chalked out for them in the text. The work derives its name from the topical analysis of the Kātantra Sūtras with which it commences. This analysis is useful in determining the form in which the Kātantra Satras were studied in Kasmira at the time of the author. The
analysis is quoted in full below. Begins -ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥
भाराध्य षण्मुखमवाप्तवरप्रसादः कारुण्यपूर्णहृदयः किल शर्ववर्मा । लोकस्य मोहतिमिराहतये व(व्य)धत्त संक्षेपतः प्रकरणत्रितयात्मशास्त्रं ॥ तत्रादितो व्ययितवर्णपदेषु संधि तत्रानुनासिकपदं बहुकारकादि। आख्यातिकं तदनु साध्यपदं क्रियाख्यमेतावतैव हि समन्वयमात्रलाभः ॥
