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336
ज्ञानदीप
No. 257
Vedanta
174
Size. 8 in. by 4 in.
Extent. - 12-2 leaves; 7 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line.
Description. - Country paper, thin, smooth and dark grey; Deva nāgari characters; handwriting bold, clear and uniform ; borders ruled with two spaced double lines, the space being filled in with red ink; verse-numbers enclosed within red dandas; the four marginal spaces are yellowcoated; first two foll. missing; on the last fol. there is a central circular design painted in red and black with a lotus in the middle; the Ms. describes a samvada between Hari (= Bhagavān ) and Hara ( = Isvara) and the names of these speakers are written in alternate letters in black and red; the foll. have become brittle; the total number of _stanzas appears to be 138; fol. 9s records the 100th verse and after verse 103 the numbering begins from 4 to 38.
Age.-- Samvat 1689.
Begins. fol. 3"
थम्यं पूजा अधमाधमा ॥ १७ ॥ अंधकारं महाघोरं दुर्गंसंसारसागरं ॥
शृणु कृष्ण महाज्ञानि महापातकनाशनं ॥ १८ ॥
[257
Jñānadipa
177
1883-84
ब्रह्महत्या सुरापानं मात्रीगवनकिल्विषं ॥ मुच्यते सर्वपापेभ्यो ध्यानमेकं ततक्षणं ॥ १९ ॥ श्रीभगवानुवाच ॥
किं ध्यानं केन वर्णानि किं ज्योतिः किं च भाजनं ॥ कथं ध्यानं च कर्तव्यं कथं वित्तानि योजयेत् ॥ २० ॥ ईश्वर उवाच ॥
मनसा गोचरे देहे समाध्यां न च केशवः ॥
आत्माध्यानं च कर्तव्यं तत्र कालो निवर्त्तते ॥ २१ ॥ etc.
