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170.
मागराजपद्धति
No. 142
Vaidyaka
[ 142.
Magarajapaddhati
1069. 1886-92.
Size.- 113 in. by 4io in.
Extent.- 242 leaves ; 15 lines to a page ; 43 letters to a line. Description.— Country paper; Devanāgarī characters; hand-writing bad and legible with difficulty; two lines in black ink on both the borders; marks of punctuation, topic-headings, colophons and topic-endings are tinged with red pigment. The work covers all the fields of medicine including charms. Author's geneology is evident from the verses given below. Paper is extremely old, brittle, smoky, soiled with ink and dampness, decaying and worm-eaten. Many leaves are a mass of small bits. It is a fragment, the last folio bearing the number 417. The following 175 foll. are missing: :-5, 6-10, 14, 16, 23, 39, 42, 43, 52, 55-60, 81, 83, 89, 90, 92, 95, 101, 102, 116-19, 124, 128-29, 138, 147, 148, 153-60, 167, 177-238, 266-67, 269-72, 281-82, 284-85, 291-92, 294-95, 298, 302, 324-26, 369-410, 412-416. It has no end.
Age.— Appears to be extremely old.
Author.-— Magaraja. Begins.fol. rb
स्वस्ति श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः ॥ श्रीधन्वंतरये नमः ॥ भक्तौघा प्रय... ( lost )श शर्वाणी मनोहारिणे ॥ मत्तेभाजनधारिणे परशुनोग्रेणानिशं शालिने ॥ तीव्रं तप्तवते तप... तरते सद्बुधिमातन्वते || त्रैलोक्ये वसतां यसोगणगणा श्रीधीशाय तस्मै नमः ॥ भ्रूलास्योत्सवकारिणीं शुकविपंचीधारिणीं हारिणीं । संसारार्णवतारिणीं तनुरुच्चा हेम्नस्तिरस्कारिणी । मत्तेभं स्वगतैर्विवजित्य ललितं संचारिणीं भारतीं । वंदेहं चतुराननाननकृतावासां मनोभीष्टदा ॥ २ ॥ यस्मिनुद्योतमाने तिमिरमयमहाकल्मकं याति नाशं । atar araणश्व क्षितिरपि च तथा याति पद्मं प्रकाशं ।
