Dhatupradip

Author(s): Srishchandra Chakravarti
Publisher: Varendra Research Society

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( 3 ) aqueta utarat Ria rigfafa and banters yard, the author of the 891901, thus in 3, 2, 49 of the same, separat ftit qaleigaraan fafari aforafaefterfatat as 912 saarifafari Two works-the sqare and the anglena--are found referred to in many classical treatises. Their very dames make them appear as commentaries on the nei noi speaks, in his wigoff, of a faqata, the title of which seems to have originated in imitation of that of the hotela But it cannot be asserted if they all or any of them (i. e. the Anunyasa, Nyasoddyota and Vritti-prodeepa ) are identical with Maitreya's Tantraprodeepa All our MSS. of his works are either in Bengali characters or the copies from the MSS. written in the same. But Rakshita's treatises were also current in other parts of India than Bengal. He is as already stated referred to by netfor, #f u, 194, m ea, &ce. SRISH CHANDRA CHAKRAVARTI.