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अनेन प्रीयतां देवो भगवान्भक्तवत्सलः
लक्ष्मीनृसिंह पूर्वेषामस्माकं कुलदैवतं ॥ Reference – See No. 594 / 1882-83.
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Pșthvipremodaya No, 841
1824-86 Size -10in. by 4} in. Extent - 19 leaves; 11 lines to a page; 55 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
bad; three lines in black ink on either border; marks of punctuation only at the end of a topic; paper very old, worn out, musty and slightly worm eaten; foll. 1-59 missing
The present work which begins with the concluding portion on dāna ends with prāyaścitta, The author, Premanidhi Panta, was the son of Umāpati and Uddyotamati. He was a native of Kūrmācala (Kumaon) and had settled at Benares. The Ms. of Jagatpremodaya as described by Haraprasāda Shāstri in his Cat, of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. III, No. 2093 is almost identical with our work, except for the name and for the date. Our work was composed in śakā 1659 and Jagatpremodaya in Saka 1663. Our author seems to have been a great tantrika as he composed Prayogaratnākara (1. O. Cat. No. 2595). Commentaries on Saktisangamatantra and Sāradatilaka, and many other works, list of which is given by Aufrecht in his Catalogus Catalogorum, i, 3646 and 3659, See
also Kane : Hist Dh. I, pp. 514 and 713. Age — Appears to be modern. Author - Premanidhi Panta. Subject - Dharma. Begins — fol. 60a
स्तिकस्ते न हिस्तेभ्य श्चौराण्यतिताप च पिशुनम् णहंतृभ्यः प्रदत्त दुष्फलं भवेत् ॥ असमज्ञसंज्ञवं परस्वहर्तारो क्रमेण स्तेनचौरपदाभ्यामत्र विवक्षितौं भ्रणहामिशूद्यत्यजादिगर्भहापि विवक्षित दूति तपति तपेदेन पौनरूत्यं ।। etc.
