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Jyotisa
205
Ents-fol. 14a
खरमज्झते लब्धं मासशेषादिनानि च मासद्वासभागतेन लब्धं वर्षप्रमानतः खेत्रहस्तां यतां पंच पंचभक्तिक्रमेन च शेषलब्धविजानीयं व्याधिश्च ग्रह उच्यते ॥ १७ इति अष्टग्रहगण नाम ॥ इति वास्तुप्रकरणं संपूर्ण संवत् १८७३ शा १७३८ वैशाखकृष्ण १२ बुधे संपूर्ण.
वास्तुप्रदीप
Vāstupradipa
208 No. 1089
1883-84 Size - 118 in. by 51 in. Extent -14 leaves%3; 12 lines to a page; 30 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; not very old
in appearance; handwriting bold but not quite clear ; red pigment used for marking; yellow pigment used for corrections; white chalk also occasionally used ; left hand edges worn out and moth-eaten.
The work gives the date as Saka 1573 i.e. A. D. 1651. But Aufrecht says that this work is quoted in the Nirnayasindhu of Kamalakara, which was composed in A.D. 1612. If Dr. Aufrecht's statement is correct the date of the composition of the present work will have to be regarded as Samvat
1573 and not saka 1573. Age - Samvat 1856. Author - Vasudeva. Subject - A treatise dealing with the Sakuna due to the building of a
house.
Begins - fol. 20
ॐ श्रीगणेशाय नमः * विद्वच्छाब्दिकसंगतोक्तरचणैर्यद्वास्तुवियावत्तामानंदाभिगमो भवेन्मुनिमतः सज्ज्योति उद्योतितः