Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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small tract called Chandrârkî, of which No. 308 is a
copy. No. 346 is a manuscript Damodara's Bhata
$a- of a Karaņa by Damodara, the tulya, Saka 1339.
pupil of Padmanâbha, based on the astronomical data given by Aryabhata, and hence it is called Bhatatulya. Damodara's epoch is 1339 Saka corresponding to 1417 A.D., and the manuscript is dated 1559 Sanivat or 1503 A.D.; (S., Appendix II.).
No. 304 is the GrahachintáŚrînatha's Grahachintamai, Saka 1512. mani by Srinutlha son of Râma
and younger brother of Raghunâtha; and the year used as an epoch is 1512 Saka. This Râma was probably the same as the author of the Muhûrtachintamani. There is also a copy of Brahmadeva's Karana. another Karana entitled Kara
4. naprakâsa, (No. 299), by Brahmadeva, son of Chandrabhatta. But its first leaf is lost and that of another manuscript substituted in its place; hence its epoch cannot be easily made out. Amongst a number of manuscripts, however, since Śml, 1014.
collected in the Maratha coun
try, I found the first two or three leaves of a copy of this Karaṇa, and these have been added to No. 299. From the first two verses, I gather that Brahmadera follows the astronomical data given by Aryabhata and the S'aka year used by him as an epoch is 1014; (T., Appendix II.). This, therefore, is the oldest of the Karaņas in the present collection. There is in the collection a copy of the Graha
lâghava, (No. 306), with the Ganesa's Grahalâ- illustrative commentary of Visghava with Visva natha's commentary.
vanâtha. This is the work that
is ordinarily used by the Hindu astronomers and astrologers of the day. The author's name is Gaņeśa, who was the son of Keśava, himself the author of a Jâtakapaddhati to be men