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294 Vaidyaka
[2840 लक्ष्मणोत्सव
Lakşmaņotsava No. 234
911.
-1887-91. Size.-- 8t in. by 4} in. Extent.- 218 leaves : 9 lines to a page ; 38 letters to a line: Description.-- Country paper ; Devanagari characters; hand-writ
ing legible ; two lines in black ink on each border; benedictory phrase, topic headings and colophons tinged with red pigment. In the first chapter a geneology of Lakşmaņa is given. He was a resident of Mathura and was a Kāyastha of Mathura class. From this geneology as well as from the colophons at the end of 64 chapters in the book it will appear that Lakşmaņa is not the author. From the last portion it appears that a certain Kșemaśarmā had composed a big work and Vedaśarma derived his knowledge from it and dictated it to one Dāmodara. Purusottama was a critic who perhaps revised and critically examined it. The
work was composed in 1450 A. D. Age.- San. 1767. Author.- Vedasarma (?) patronised-by Laksmana. Begins.- fol. 50
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श्वरणनखरभासो भाति यो भक्तिभाजां॥ दधदमिमतसिद्धथै कल्पवल्लीरिवाग्रयाः
___ स जयति गजवक्त्रोदाननीरप्रसक्तः ॥१॥ स्फूर्जन्मोहतमास्तिरस्कातरविविश्वांबुधेः सर्वदा __ पारे तिष्ठति यं स्पृशांति न जगद्वीजा न दोषोर्मयः॥ साक्षात्पश्यति यश्व विश्वमखिलं तत्वार्थवाचां कवि
__ स्तं बंदे प्रणताखिलार्तिशमनं सर्वज्ञमाशं परं ॥२॥ नमोस्तु धन्वंतरये समस्तजरापरातंकतमः सवित्रे। दिव्यांगनासंततयौवनश्रीसंपत्तिदायामृतसाधनाय ॥३॥
