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187.]
Tantra
207
References.- Mss -A- Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum i, 2296;
ii, 480 ; iii, 49. B- Descriptive Catalogues :
I. O. Cat. ms. no. 2603-4. Mitra's Notices, Vol. I, no. 512. Mitra's Catalogue of Bikaner Mss. p. 618, no. 1353.
तारारहस्यवृत्तिका
Tārārahasyavrttikā
661. No. 187
1895-1902. Size.- Iof in. by 4g in. Extent.-64 leaves ; L lines to a page ; 34 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting
legible; two lines in black ink on each border; Colophons and names of authorities quoted tinged with red pigment; paper is very old, worn out, worm eaten and decaying. A number of folios missing; the Ms. is a fragment. The first leaf, bearing number 1, belongs to some other work. It begins:
स्वस्ति श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ श्रीकृष्णाय नमः ॥ कलात्तमायालवकात्त ... ... कलकणद्वेणुनिनादरम्यः । श्रितो हृदि व्याकुलयंत्रिलोकीं श्रियेस्तु गोपीजनवल्लभो वः ॥१॥
It ends:- स्नातो निर्मलशुद्धसूक्ष्मवसनो धौतांघ्रिपाण्याननः । स्वाचांतः तु पवित्रमुद्रितकरः स्वेतोर्धपुंड्रोज्ज्वलः ।
प्राचीदिग्वदनो निबध्य सुदृढं पद्मासनं. The regular work begins on fol. 20
Another copy. Age.- Appears to be very old. Author- Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 24
प्रातरुत्थाय कुलवृक्षं प्रणम्य च । मूलादिब्रह्मरंध्रांतं कुलं ध्यात्वा गुरुं स्मरेत् ।। etc.
Same as in No. 86.
