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22 Tantra
[230 Age.- Appears to be fairly old. Author.- Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 1.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ चतुरस्र लिखेवर्णाश्वत:कोष्टसमन्विते । चतुःकोष्ठेषु षोडशकोष्ठमिति यावत् चतुरनं लिखेत् ॥
कोष्ठं चतुरस्रसमन्वितं पुनश्चतुष्कं तत्रापि लिखेद्धिमान् क्रमेण तु इति .. . विश्वसारवचनात् । etc. Ends.- fol. 50 ....तथा च। . . सराष्ट्रनवभद्राणि युग्मयुग्मगतान्यपि ।
इतराणि न भद्राणि इत्यादि स्वनक्षत्रज्ञाने स्वनामाचक्षरं संबंधी नक्षत्रादेव नक्षत्रगणनीयमिति प्रादक्षिण्येन गणयेत्साधकाक्षरतः सुधीः । इति नक्षत्र
References. — Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum, iii, 592.
नवचण्डीविधान
Navacaņdividhāna No. 233
669.
1895-1902. Size.— 83 in. by s in. Extent.- 26 !eaves ; 11 lines to a page ; 23 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper ; Devanagari characters; hand-writ
ing legible ; benedictory phrase and the colophons at the end of each chapter are tinged with red pigment; paper very old, worn out, musty and worm-eaten, Incomplete. ** The work is written by a Dravida brahmin named Srinivāsa Deśikendra. It treats of ritual and worship to be observed in each chapter of the famous Durgåsaptašati. Unfortunately the work is incomplete and breaks of in the
middle of the 4th chapter. - Age.- Appears to be fairly old. Author.- Srinivasa Desikendra.
