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B. Paniniya School
Age - Sam. 1850.
Author There exists a similarly-named Commentary on the same work and its author is Nageśa. Probably this is the same, though the work hss neither मंगलाचरण nor प्रशस्ति.
69
Subject – A brief but concise Com. called indifferently विषमव्याख्या or विषमपदव्याख्या on Bhattoji Dikshita's शब्दकौस्तुभ. Begins- श्रीवक्रतुंडाय नमः ॥ विषयमिति ॥ विषये कथिते तत्प्रतिरूपप्रयोजनमप्युक्तप्रायं । प्रयोजनमाहेति कैयटोक्तं चिंत्यं विषयकथनेन न्यूनत्वात् ॥
Ends - दैवदत्त इति ॥ देशबहिर्भूतेषु वाहीकेषु देवदत्तो नाम तत्र भवो दैवदत्त इत्यर्थः ॥ इति श्री शब्द कौस्तुभे विषमपदव्याख्यायां नवममाह्निकम् ॥ पादश्च समाप्तः ॥ संवत् १८५० तमे वर्षे भाद्रपदमासे कृष्णपक्षे तृतीयायां रविवासरे देहावलीस्थ-भट्टोपनामक देवात्मजेन शिवशंकराख्येन लिखितेयं विषमपदव्याख्या नाम श्रीशब्दकौस्तुभस्य टीका ॥
Reference — Ulwar, 1185.
शब्द कौस्तुभटीका ( प्रभा)
No. 86
Prabha, Com. on the Sabdakaustubha
62
1866-68
Size – 91⁄2 in by 4 in.
Extent – 81 leaves, 10 lines to a page, about 50 letters to a line. Description - Country paper, Devanagari characters, clear and legible writing, fairly correct. Margins ruled and red chalk sparingly used. Contains the Com. on the first Ahnika only of Adhyāya I, pāda I. The Ms. is bound like a modern book.
Age - Modern copy.
Author Vaidyanatha Payagunda, son of Mahadeva and pupil of Nāgeśa Bhatta.
