________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir (xxix) Vardhamana Mahapatra was a great scholar like his father. Like Lolla Lakshmidhara attributing the authorship of his work Attaal fera to the name of his patron 777.f TAITEIT Vardhana Mahapatra made his patron Rimachandra Deva, tha anthor of his work 'Gattan Sipil'. This work describes the autumnal festival of Goddess Durga graafia: gaisa- Marie Fifetia pai pai versy. This work was based on siia igar, T iger. FETAT, AFATa, pigen ? arraerte feat, ATTEST OFT and other Sanhitas, Tantras and Purinas, which is stated in the two verses quoted below. e. g.; $tia Afgaret tar #ifsirgtorat agatia sta nalan Toget fag line! यदलम्बि तत्त्वसागर सारस्वतन्त्र मन्त्रवर वाक्यैः अन्यासु च सहितासु च तन्त्र प्वथ वा पुराणेषु // 16 // It is still regard xas an anthority like gITETETT7787 raia vara Mikra through out Orissa, of Goda VISVANATHA MISRA: F AIT Gag: by Visvanitha Misra is very popular in Orissa and palmleaf manuscripts containing this work are being discovered in all parts of this state. As its very name inilicates it is a small compedium of previous Smrti works dealing on Kala, Achira and Sraddha. Vievangtha does not say any thing abont himself, his gotra, forefathers, birth place or his time in his fineIT NIE. But this much is known definitely from the copies of tuis work so far examined that he was a Brahnana having the surname Misra, and belonged to Orissa' which is known f:om his remark abont Prathamashtami, festival which is observed only in Orissa on the Krstnashtami of the month of Margasira e. g., 29 g iual. 75teg ar ystrazitarie efra, Triat Arfft, 7Tf09TRAFT arfer i There are six manuscripts of this work in the ccolletion of the Museum Dh/13, Dh/14, Dh/15, Dh/16, Dh/108 and Dh/157 of which Dh/108 is important as it contains the date of copy in its last colophon, which was the Srl Anka of King Gopinatha Deva. The 3rd Anka or For Private and Personal Use Only
