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408
Dharmaśāstra
(979 इति श्रीकोदंडपरशुरामेत्यादि विविधविरुदावलि विराजमानमानोवतमहाराजाधिराजश्रीशक्तिसिंहात्मजमदनरत्नप्रदीपे शांतिविवेकोद्योतः समाप्ता । शुभं भूयात् ॥ मीती कार्तिकमासे कृष्ण पक्षे १३ संवत १८७७ का
References - Mss. -A- Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
i, 4262; (other uddyotas ); ii, 974 (vyavahāra ); ii, 216a; iii, 92a.
Kane : Hist. Dh. I, pp. 389-393. B - Descriptive Catalogues :- Paterson's Cat. of
Ulwar Mss., 1410, Extract 336 (Samayoddyota). Haraprasād Shāstri's Cat, of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. III, No. 1955. For other Uddyotas and a lengthy discussion on the work, see numbers 1949-54 of this very Catalogue.
Madanaratnapradipa
मदनरत्नप्रदीप No. 979
146
Višrāma(i).
Size - 121 in. by 5* in.
Extent - 216 leaves; 14 lines to a page; 50 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
good, but small; four lines in black ink on either border; topics and colophons are tinged with red pigment irregularly; corrections made with yellow pigment; notes written in very small characters on the margins; paper very old, worn out, musty and soiled; incomplete; ink-spots fallen on fol. 5a; foll. 50 (twice ), 75-77, 117 and 205 repeated; fol. 123 missing; one leaf written on one side between foll. 59-60.
The codex contains the first chapter-Samayoddyota of
Madanaratnapradipa. Age - Appears to be old. Author - Visvanātha, by order of Madanasimha. Begins - fol. 16
श्रीमहागणपतये नमः ॥ स्मृतिकर्तृभ्यो नमः॥