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Šāstradīpikā is the well-known commentary on the Mimāmsādhikaraņas by Pārthasārathi Miśra, printed at the Benares Medical Hall Press.
The commentary on this, entitled Mayūkhamālikā, is by Somanātha, son of Sūra Bhatta, and younger brother of Venkatādriyajvan who was also his teacher.
___ The MS. is imperfect, beginning with the 2nd pada of the 1st adhyāya and ending in the 4th pāda of the 9th chapter. The last colophon runs :
इति श्रीविठ्ठलकुलतिलकसूरभट्टमहोपाध्यायतनूभवस्य वेङ्कटाद्रियज्वगुरुचरणानुजस्य सोमनाथसर्वतोमुखयाजिनः कृतौ शास्त्रदीपिकाव्याख्यायां मयखमालिकाख्यायां नवमस्याध्यायस्य चतुर्थः
पादः। See IO. Catal., pp. 696B—698.
8075.
8830. Mayūkhamālikā. Substance, country-made paper. 14x6 inches. Folia, 336. Lines, 12 on a page. Extent in slokas, 16,000. Character, Nāgara. Appearance, worm-eaten. Incomplete.
A fourth copy.
Chapter I complete in 82 leaves%3; II has two different naginations: the pagination from the leaf 1 breaks off at leaf 63, which has also 58 for its page-mark, and the pagi. nation from 58 continues to the end in leaf 73; III complete in 122 leaves; IV complete in 53 leaves. The colophon of the 2nd chapter :
इति श्रीविठ्ठलकुलतिलकसूरभट्टमहोपाध्यायतनूभवस्य वेड्कटाद्रियज्वगुरुचरणानुजस्य सोमनाथसर्वतोमुखयाजिनः कृतौ शास्त्रदीपिकाव्याख्यायां मयूखमालिकाख्यायां द्वितीयाध्यायस्य चतुर्थः
पादः। It begins :
आविष्करोतु विबुधैरभिवन्दनीयां
वाचं स कोऽपि मम वल्लभसार्वभौमः। वंशोऽपि यत्परिणहौतत या विभर्ति ।
वाचालतां त्रिभुवनैकविमोहयित्रीम् ।
