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The present MS has been described in L. IV. 1520. It contains the sixth chapter of the work, dealing with the good and bad omens for children as indicated by the positions of astronomical bodies. The MS seems to be the concluding part of a bigger work called सन्तानदीपिका, which name occurs in the last colophon and on the left margin of Fol. 1A, 3B.
6038. 10826. विश्वसारतन्ने गूढावतारः। Gadhāvatāra
from the Visvasāratantram. Substance, country-made paper. 13x41 inches. Folia, 2. Lines, 12 on a page. Extent in slokas, 58. Character, Bengali. Appearance, dis. coloured. Complete.
In the form of an interlocution between Siva and Pārvati it gives an account of the incarnation of Vişņu as Caitanya. The mantra and gāyatrī of Caitanya are also given.
This very topic is assigned in VSP (p. 50) to the 11th chapter of the last part of the Visvasāroddhāra Tantra and not to that of the Visvasāra as in the present MS. Beginning :
श्रीश्रीराधाकृष्ण । श्रीपाळत्युवाच ।
सर्वं श्रुतं महादेव त्वदनात् कवचादिकम् । मन्त्रपूजाविधिश्चैव श्रुतं योगादिका क्रिया ॥ साम्प्रतं श्रोतुमिच्छामि देवानामपि दुर्लभम् । गोलोकान्दकनाथस्य गूढावतरणं कलौ ॥
... ... ... ... सदाशिव उवाच ।
श्रीनवदीपमध्ये कलौ प्रथमसन्ध्यायाम् । हरिजनि[रभूत् गौराङ्गदेहः खयम् ॥
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