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(2) Printed Editions :Edited by Praphulla Chandra Ray and Pandit Hariscandra ___Kaviratna, Calcutta, I910 (Bibliotheca Indica, new Series, - Vol. 174.)
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Rasăvatāra No. 226
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1882-83. Size.—94 in. by 4iq in. Extent.-- 108 leaves ; 12 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanagari characters with
occasional पृष्ठमात्राs%3 hand-writing legible with difficulty%3 first five folios have a different hand-writing ; paper is very old, musty and worn out; dampness and age has made many folios undecipherable ; somebody has tried to restore the text at various places by re-writing the faded portions ; folios 7, 8, 10 Ir are missing and folio 53 is repeated ; hence the actual number of folios is III+1-43108; folio 12 is broken on left-hand corner and folio 526 has 422 lines only. In the first 18 verses the author eulogises the gods, good people and learned authors; then he gives a gist of
the contents ; after this the colophon is इति सूत्रम्. Age.- Appears to be very old. Author.-- Anonymous. Begins.-- fol. 16
नमो श्रीगणेशायः॥ अशोभिचलकुंडलद्वितयशष्टं गंडस्थलं बिचित्रमाणमेखलं मरकतांकुरश्यामलं । कदंबवनमध्यगं विधृतमोघनाथं महः स्मरामि रससिद्धये वितशैशवं केशवं ॥१॥ . ग्रंथांतरात्किमपि सारतरं प्रगृह्य यद्यानुभूतमतिदगुरूपदिष्टं।