Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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glosses on the Meghadata, (Nos. 157-160), a com. plete copy of a commentary on the Naishadhiya by Narahari, (No. 146), two commentaries on the Khandapraśasti, (Nos. 140 and 620), two old copies of Kadambarî, (Nos. 134 and 135), a manuscript of the Panchatantra more than five hundred years old, (No. 147), and two poems entitled Rukminisavijaya and Tîrthaprabandha by Vâdirâjatîrtha with commentaries, (Nos. 622, 623, 632 and 633). There is a copy of the Madhvavijaya or the triumphant career of Madhva, (No. 627); but several of its leaves are missing. The last three works belong to the Mâdhya sect, and Vâdirâja, said to be the same as Kavîndra, was one of Ânandatîrtha's successors, being the eighth in the list given in Appendix II. He died in 1261 Saka or 1339 A.D. (C., Appendix II.) One of the commentaries on the Khandapraśasti
is by Guņavinaya, a Jaina, and Gangådâsa and Na
la- the other by Gangadâsa, who rahari.
in a stanza at the end of each section gives Pochiya as the name of his father and Mahâlakshmî as that of his mother. He assumed the name of Jñânânanda after he had renounced the world and become a sannyâsin or recluse. The stanza is given by Professor Aufrecht in his notice of this work; but it is worthy of observation that the line in which his having become a recluse is mentioned occurs for the first time in the stanza at the end of his commentary on the Râma avatâra, or the seventh incarnation of Vishņu, so that he seems to have assumed that condition after he had finished his commentary on the first six avatâras or incarnations ; (See D., Appendix II). The commentary on the Naishadhîya also contains at the end of each canto a stanza in which the author gives his name as Narahari and states that he was the son of one Svayambhù " whose feet were incessantly adored by