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196
Tantra
[176.
Tantrasāra
447. No. 176 .
1875-76. Size. – 10 in. by 7 in. Extent.- 45 feaves ; 20 lines to a page ; 20 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper ; Sārada characters, hand-writing
good; paper is old and slightly worn out. It contains explanatory notes on the margin of each leaf. These notes
start from a page before the text begins and end on the S page next to the last page of the text. Age.--. Appears to be fairly old, Author- Abhinavagupta, Begins.--. fol. 14
* A: iştato G F g6x9:1 TAJET Ígagnaati etc. same as in
No. 174. Ends -- fol. 456
काश्मीरिकोभिनवगुप्तपदाभिधान-etc. along with colophon and the last verse, the same as in No. 174.
शिवमस्तु लेखकपाठकयोश्च शिवम् । References.- See No. 174.
तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
458. No. 177
A. 1881-82. Size. — 10 in. by si in. Extent.- 9. leaves ; 12 lines to a page; 29 letters to a line. Description.- Modern paper with water-mark; Devanāgari chara
cters; hand-writing legible; two lines in red ink on each border.
The Ms. consists of a collection of manitas of AEGAT ( foll. 1-39 ), TUST ( foll. 38-76 ), grandit ( foll. 86-86 ), and ( foll. 86-96); it breaks off without finishing the gras. These mantras have been taken from the first परिच्छेद of तन्त्रसार.
