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Tantra
459
शारदातिलक
Śāradatilaka
255. No. 435
A. 1883-84. Size.- 13 in. by 64 in. Extent.- 143 leaves ; 11 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper ; Devanāgari characters; two hand
writings, legible; three kinds of paper used-foll. 1-68 whitish ; foll. 69-79 brownish and foll, 80-143 bluish. Hand-writing on whitish and brownish paper is by one man, that on bluish by another. Colophons and topics are tinged with red pigment. Some of the leaves have explanatory notes on the margin.
Another copy. Age.- Sam. 1909. Author.- Lakşmaņa Deśikendra. Begins, fol. b
ॐ श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॐ॥
Familaquitarma | etc. Ends.- fol. 143
TITT FITAT I etc. इति श्रीशारदातिलके पंचविशः पटलः ॥२५ । समाप्तमिदं शारदा
तिलकं शुभं भूयात् ।। संवत १९०९ शाके १७७४ पौष शुक्ल १३ शनौ। . References.- See No. 430.
शारदातिलक
Śáradātilaka No. 436
950
1887-91. Size.- 11 in. by 44 in. Extent. - 115 leaves ; 16 lines to a page ; 35 letters to a line Description.- Country paper; Devanāgari characters; several
hand-writings but legible. The ms. is on very old paper; it has lost some of its leaves (viz. 35-38 and 64-65 ) which have been supplied later by some scribe with 6 leaves