Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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"According to the Mahābhārata 9. 37, 14f. there is a sacred place Garga-srotas, "Garga's stream”, on the Sarasvati, named after the venerable ascetic Garga, who was famous on account of his knowledge of time", "and the movements of the celestial bodies". "To the same (later) period (of Indian astronomy) belongs also the Gārgi-samhitā of Garga who was always regarded as a highly distinguished authority on Astronomy ; the Vrddha-Gārga-samhitā, which exists, dealt, it is true, chiefly with astrology but it also contained (discussions on) Astronomy +sa."
The Brhat-samhitāteb of Varāhamihira mentions Garga, Maya, Viśvakarman, Vasiştha and Nagnajit, as also, Bhāskara and Manu.
Works of Bhāskara and Ganapati are also quoted from, in the Vastu-saraṇī49, a modern compilation ; these may be authentic silpasāstrakāras whose names are known from other sources, and whose works might be preserved.
Bhagavān Ganapati is mentioned, among later writers only by Madhusūdana Sarasvati in his Prasthanabheda50, as a master of dramaturgy, Bharataéāstram :
48a. M. Winternitz : Geschichte III. pp. 556-57. Bracketed portions in the above translation are ours.
485. Brihat-samhitā. Edited by Kern. Bibliotheca Indica, Asiatic Soc. Bengal; also, edited by Mm. Sudhākara Dvivedin with Bhattot pala's commentary, Vizianagram Skt. Scries, Benares.
49. P.K. Acharya : Op. cit. Appendix I. sub-voce. Vastu-sārani by Māt prasīda Pande. Benares, 1901. Bhāskara is quoted early, in Varāhamihira's Brhat-s.amhita. (Ed. Kern) Ch. 58, 52.
50. These surprisingly informative and new texts are not to be found in the ordinary edition of the Prasthinabheda by Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati e. g. from Sri Vänivilis Press, Sriraigam, 1912. Nor are they to be found in the closely analogous passage in Sri Madhusudana's learned commentary to the SIVA-MAHIMNA.STAVA, edited by Pansikar Laksaņa Vasudeva. Nirņayasāgar Press, Bombay under the most famous and oft-quoted verse :