Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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1535 or 1479 A.D., that is more than 400 years ago, (No. 106). We have a somewhat mutilated manuscript of a work entitled Jñânabhâskara, (Nos. 96-97), which consists of a dialogue between Surya, the Sun deity, and Aruņa, his charioteer, and another of that part of it which treats of the duties of widows. Of digests and manuals, which form an extensive branch of the modern literature of the subject we have an old copy of the Madanapârijâta, (No. 599), which is considered a work of much importance, and treatises on the domestic rites of the followers of the White Yajurveda entitled Samskârabbâskara, (Nos. 115 and 611), by Khandabhatta, the son of Mayhreśvara, and Samskârapaddhati, (Nos. 114 and 610), by Gangadhara. Madanapârijâ ta is so called because its author Viśveśvara was patronized by a prince named Madanapala whose history is given in the introduction to the work. This introduction Professor Aufrecht gives in his notice of the work in the Oxford Catalogue. Nos. 614, 615, and 618 are commentaries on works detailing the duties of the followers of Madhya, the originals of which were written by Madhvâchârya himself. The last of these manuscripts contains the original also. Nos. 616 and 617 also belong to that sect. Besides other works which are well known we have a large number of manuscripts of rituals employed on special occasions.
CLASS V.--POEMS, PLAYS, FABLES, &c.
Among the poems and plays and the commentaries thereon collected this year may be mentioned a large fragment of Ekanâtha's commentary on the Kirâtârjuniya, (No. 136), eleven cantos of the Raghuvamsadarpaņa by Hemâdri, (No. 161), an anonymous commentary on the first eight cantos of the Kumarasambhava, (No. 139), four different