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knew even the ten Purvas was Sri Vajraswāmi who died in s. y. 114. He as well as Sri Padaliptasūri are the next persons credited with further abridging or rearranging these Pràbhfta works. *
The importance of these works is that there is a Prabhsta named Vijjāpāhuda dealing with Vidyās mentioned in the biography of Sri Padaliptasūri contained in Kathāvali and also in Prabhāvakacaritra works of the 13th and 14th centuries respectively of the Vi. krama era. There, both the said Sri Padaliptasūri and Vidyācakravarti (Sovereign of Vidyās-magic) Aryakhapuțācārya who flourished about the beginning of the Vikrama era are described as versed in Vijjāpāhuda. After Vidyānupravāda this Vijjāpāhuda was considered to be a comprehensive work on Vidyās and Mantras. It is however lost now.
Yonipräbhịta referred to in the footnote on p. 155 is a work of the Prābhịta class. An incomplete manuscript of the said work is available in a mutilated condition with many lacunae and mixed up with Jagatsundari Yogamālā, a work on medicine by Muni Jasakīrti and/or Harişeņa. Pahnasramaņamuni is mentioned as the author of the said work Yoniprābhịta in the said manuscript.* The writer has not personally seen the manuscript but has seen the notes taken therefrom by an acquaintance and a transcript of Chs. 35 to 43 from another incomplete manuscript also in the Bhāndārakara Research Institute Library. It contains Mantras at various places. At it is reputed to be an old work, some of the Mantras therein contained are set forth in Appendix A hereto.
* See Vividha-tirtha-Kalpa, Satrunjaya-Kalpa V. 122 and Revantagiri-Kalpa V. 1 and its colophon. * The manuscript is in the library of the Bhāndārkar Research Institute and bears old No. 266/A 1882-83 and New No. 31. According to the colophon, the date of this manuscript is s.y. 1582 (Saka 1447) Srävana Krsna 3rd. The work inter alia contains Maptras of Jvälàmålini and Kuşmåndini alias Ambikā. Māņibhadra and Gañadharavalaya Mantra. The last two are given in the appendix A hereto. Several articles on Yonipräbhrta are published in Anekānta (Vol. II) a Hindi magazine published at Sarsavā, Dist.Saharanpur; they may be persued by the readers interested in the subject.
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