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Tantra
एवं मंत्रो विनिहितंः प्रत्यहं ध्ययमानो । दत्त्वाभीष्टान्विधचरितान् द्धितद्धिरथर्वणेपि ॥ बहुनात्र किमुक्तेन दक्षिणामूर्तिमंत्रतः । वागीश्वरेश्वरो भूत्वा मंत्री सायुज्यमाप्नुयात् ॥ २२ ॥ इति श्रीशंडिल्ये तृतीयः पटलः । शिवार्पणमस्तु ॥ 'After this a verse about
given.
Age.— Appears to be very old.
Author.— Anonymous. Begins. fol. 1b
[ 203
for curing poison is
दक्षिणामूर्तिसंहिता
No. 204
Size. 11 in. by 5 in.
Extent.— 59 leaves ; 8 lines to a page 37 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanagari Characters with पृष्ठमात्रा ; hand-writing legible; four lines in black ink on each border:; benedictory phrases, names of speakers, verse-numbers and colophons are tinged with red pigment; paper is very old, musty and much worn out. It is a fragment ; foll. 21, 55-56 and 61-62 incomplete.
are missing. It is
It is a work on 7 antric worship by means of mystic mantras. According to I. O. Cat. Ms. No. 2583, it seems to consist of 64 chapters. Only the first 30 chapters are numbered in this ms. and it breaks off in the middle of the chapter called Pavitraropana, which is perhaps the 4oth.
Dakṣiņāmurtisamhitā
डों नमो गणेशायः ॥ श्रीसौभाग्यदेवतायै नमः ॥ श्रीमच्छीकोशहृदयं पंचसिंहासनात्मकं ॥
फल कल्पलतानानु चारुरत्नस्फुरत्कलं ॥ चतुरायतनानंदि चतुरत्वपकोशगं ||
नित्यानंद परं ब्रह्म चावा नौमि सुखाप्तये ॥ २ ॥ etc.
452. 1884-86.
