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Vedanta
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2611 तत्वकौस्तुभ
Tattvakaustubha
No. 261
319-A 1899-1915
Size.- 131 in. by 5} in. Extent.- 30 + 17 leaves ; 11 lines to a page'; 54 letters to a line.
Description.-Country paper, thick, rough and greyish; Deva
nāgari characters ; handwriting large, clear and legible, but not uniform ; borders ruled with two double black lines; no punctuation marks 3 most foll. are discoloured; the title of this work cannot be found in the text; the original description of this Ms. in the "Lists of Mss. collected for the Government Mss. Library" p. 45 is as follows :
श्रेणयः ग्रंथांक ग्रंथनाम कर्तृनाम पत्राणि .
अक्षराणि
| लिपिकालः | संवेदनस्
| तत्व- महोजी| कौस्तुभ दीक्षितः
८४ | १० | ५४ | सं. १८३१
Now our Ms. here consists of 4 parts, two of which are incomplete and together give us 47 + 18 + 9 + 6 = 80 foll.; evidently 4 foll. are missing; the Mss. described by Mad. . Cat. IX, Nos. 4583-4 (pp. 3417-18) do not enlighten us on this part : for the present it is classed with another fragment with the two identifiable sections C and D of Ms. 319 of 1899-1915, under the same title%3; this Ms. consists of 55 finished verses with a commentary criticising Madhva and ends abruptly while commenting on the
55th verse. Author.- Bhottojibhatta (1) Begins.- fol. 10
॥ॐ नमो गणपतिसरस्वतीगुरुभ्यः उद्घाव्य योगकलया हृदयाजकोश धन्यैश्चिरादपि यथारुचि गृह्यमाणो ॥