Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 16

Author(s): Parshuram Krishna Gode
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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Tantra
Ends— fol. 536
आसनादिक्रमेव प्रामाणमा समस्यसेत् ।। अभ्यासाच्च स्वयं प्राणो गच्छते व्योममंडलं ॥२५॥ भयं योगः सर्वशाने विजानीयावरानने ॥
मुरोः प्रसादाज्ञातव्यं रहस्यमकुलागमं ॥२६॥ इति श्रीशालाममे महादेवपार्वतीसंबादे योगशाने महाकल्पे संपूर्ण समाप्तः ॥ संबद १७९८ भाद्रपद कृष्णे सप्तम्यां भृगौ लिखितं ॥ अंथसंख्या
५७५॥ References.-(1) Mss.-A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
_i, I'; ii, I'; iii, I'. B-Descriptive Catalogues :- I. O. Cat. Ms. Nos.
2565-66. Haraprasada Sastri's Notices II, I.
Ayastyasamhita
अगस्त्यसंहिता No.2
A.1882-83.
Size.-80 in. by 4th in. Extent.— 71 leaves ; 10 lines to a page ; 31 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper ; Devanagari characters; hand-writ
ing fair ; two lines in red ink on each border ; benedictory phrase, verse numbers, names of speakers, marks of punctuation and colophons tinged with red pig
ment. Paper is old, brittle, worn out and worm eaten. Fol. 2 is missing.
The work deals with the tantric worship of Ramacandra. It is described by MM. Haraprasada Sastri in his Notices (IISeries), p. I, whare even the incomplete ms. contains 7,958 Slokas. Our ms. has an extant of about 1255 slokas and 26 chapters. It[seems that our ms. is incomplete. But other mss. in our library are also not very large in extant. None has more than 32 chapters. Our ms. has left out chapters 24 and 25, but has marked