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172
Kavya
कुमारसंभव with tikā (बालावबोध)
Kumārasambhava
with tīkā ( Bālāvabodha ),
No. 142
434. 1895-1902.
Size.- 104 in. by 4} in. Extent.— 65 leaves ; 17 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper, old, thin but in good condition :
Devanagari characters; hand-writing, small, uniform and careful ; borders ruled with double black lines ; square blank spaces left in the middle of folios; the Ms contains 8 Sargas of the text and commentary there on; colophons
of chapters on folios : 10, IS, 24, 28, 38, 46, 56, 65. Age.- The Ms. appears to be old. Author.- Not mentioned. Begins.--|| ॐ॥
Text-- “अस्तुरस्यां दिशि etc." ॥१॥ Comm.- “ नगरार्णवशैलर्तुचंद्रार्कोदयवर्णनैः
उद्यानसलिलक्रीडामधुपानरतोत्सवैः
विप्रलंभविवाह कुमारोदयवर्णनौ मंत्रदूतप्रयाणा...नायकाभ्युदयैः सर्गबंधो महाकाव्यमुच्यते तस्य लक्षणं आशीर्नमस्क्रियावस्तुनिर्देशो वापि तन्मुखं
etc. Ends.--
इति श्रीकुमारसंभवे महाकाव्ये श्रीकालिदासकृतौ बालावबोधटीकायां गौरीश्वरसंभोगो नामाष्टमः सर्गः ॥ छ । श्री पं० मानसिंह लिखिता एषा
प्रति स्वपठनाय ग्रंथा ३९०० शुभं भवतु लेखकपाठकयोः ॥ श्री॥ References.-See Ms. No. 139 of 1882-83, which is called सुखावबोध.
This comm. appears to be identical with that in No. 139 of 1882-83.
