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268
Vaidya ka
1 215.
References.- (1) Mss.- A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
i, 4960; ii, II6. ( only रसराज is mentioned in both these entries ).
रसराजशङ्कर
Rasarājasankara
70. No. 216
1872-73. Size.— 8 in. by 4} in. Extent.— 69 leaves; 9 lines to a page ; 24 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanagari characters; hand-writ
ing good ; three lines in red ink on each border; topic - headings, verse-numbers and colophons tinged with red pigment. Paper is very old, musty and worn out. It is a fragment beginning with fol. 3 and breaking off on fol. 71. The following colophon on fol. 12° gives us the names of the work and the author. इति श्रीमद्वैद्यपंडितमुद्गलसूनुरामकृष्ण विरचिते रसराजशंकरे रसदशसंस्कारे मारणबंधनं नाम प्रथमोलंकारः । The work deals with रसs and has 9 अलंकारs or chapters. Our Ms. breaks in the middle of the sth ch.-लोकनाथरस The bundle contains two extra leaves : (1) first page of जातिविवेक by गोपीनाथ and (2) the last page of वैद्यरत्नाकरभाष्य
on which alfarere is also written in a different hand. Age.- Appears to be very old. Author.- Ramakrsna. Begins:-fol. 3*
मंत्रसिद्धी महाधीरो निश्चलः शिववत्सलः ॥१३॥ देवीभक्तः सदा धीरो देवतागगतत्परः सर्वान्नायविशेषज्ञः कुशलो रसकर्मणि ॥१४॥ एवं लक्षणसंयुक्तो रसविद्यागुरुर्भवेत् ॥ गुरुलक्षणं ॥ etc.
