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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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CATURANGA-SASTRA
81.
Giridhara.
10326. UTFTGT I Caturangaracanā.
Substance, country-made paper. 9 x 34 inches. Folia, 5. Lines, 7 on a page. Extent in blokas, 70. Character, Nāgara. Date, Samvat 1738. Appearance, discoloured. Incomplete.
The present MS contains three chapters of the work (Fol. 2B, 3A, 4B) which may be part of a bigger work called Satarañjini and described in Bik. No. 1546. The last two lines of the work, as quoted in Bik., constitute the second half of the sectional concluding verse, which occurs mutatis mutandis at the end of each of the three sections found in the present MS. The work which belongs to Buddhiśāstra (Fol. 2B, 3A, 4A) is stated to have been composed for satisfying the curiosity of children (FÀU TI fugale Aristu FTTHET farr- Fol. 3A). The author refers to his father, uncle and grandfather as well as to his paternal home on the Godāvari:
गोदोसरतटनिकटे प्रकटं पुटभेदं च गोलाख्यम् । तत्रासीत्सुबुधस्तत्मनू स्तो दृसिंहशिवौ।
mutfafafagurta............(Fol. 4A-B). For a detailed account of the works described here as also other Sanskrit works on the game of chess of. C. Chakravarti, IHQ, XIV. 275 ff. Beginning:
अथ प्रवक्ष्ये शतरञ्जाख्ये
चक्रेऽत्र मन्त्री विषये विशेषम् । anggrafo faranna
पूर्वोक्तरीत्या विदुषां विचिन्त्यम् ॥ १ ॥
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