Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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of the Chaulukya dynasty of Gujarat ; and the line about the poem being written in half a Yâma occurs, word for word, in an inscription composed by him found at Dabhoi in the territory of the Gâikavâd ; (Kathavate's Kirtikaumudi, Intr., p. ix).
CLASS VI.-VYÂKARANA OR GRAMMAR. In grammar I have to announce the acquisition of another copy of the Mahâbhâshya with the commentary of Kaiyata, (No. 185). It wants the first Pâda only, but in other respects it is a very good manuscript. There is also a fragment of a commentary on the Siddhantakaumudi, (No. 189), by an author not much known named Ramakrishnabhatta. The works of Bhattojidîkshita and Nâgojibhatta with their commentaries, which, along with a portion of the Mahâbhâshya, are exclusively studied by modern Pandits who devote themselves to grammar, are also well represented in this year's collection as they were in last year's. Of works belonging to other systems of grammar we have Bopadeva's Kavikalpadruma and a voluminous commentary on the Sârasvata by Râmabhatta, the son of Narasimha, and another entitled Så radîpikâ, both of which however are incomplete, (Nos. 193 and 194).
CLASS VII.-KOŚAS OR LEXICONS. Among the Kośas or lexicons collected this year there is a manuscript of Halâyudha, four hundred years old, (No. 645), and a copy of the Anekârthatilaka by Mahîpa, (No. 202). In the Gujarat section there is a manuscript entitled Anekårthadhvanimañjarî, (No. 199), and in the Maratha section, another entitled Nânârthamañjarî, (No. 648). On examinacion I find that they are both copies of the same work. In No. 199, the name of the author is given as Mahâchhapaņaka, chha being put for ksha, and the work is referred to the Kâśmir amnâya or