Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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tioned below and other works. They belonged to
the Kausika Gotra and lived Ganesa, native of Nândgâmy near Jañjirâ.
of at Nandigrâma which name is
guaNândgâmy in the vernacular. This is placed by Colebrooke near Devagiri, the modern Daulatâbâd, that is, he identifies this Nândgâmy with a town of that name in the Násik District on the G. I. P. Railway line. But in the manuscript before me I find a statement of Ganesa himself that his Nandigrâma was situated in Aparânta which is the Sanskrit name for Northern Konkan, and the commentator mentions in the introduction that it was situated near the sea-coast (U., Appendix II). Ganesa's Nandigrâma, therefore, is the Nândgâmy which is about four miles to the north of Janjirâ and forty miles to the south of Bombay and is now in the Saka 1442. territory of the Habasi Chief.
The epoch year in Ganesa's Grahalâghava is 1442 Saka corresponding to 1520 A.!), and the year for which the illustrative calculations are made by Viśvanâtha is 1534 Saka, or 1612 A.D. There is another work of Ganesa entitled Saka 1534.
Pâtasâraņî with Viśvanâtha's
commentary, (No. 335). The Patasaranî. Śaka 1444. Saka year occurring in the for
* mer is 1444 and Visvanatha's explanatory calculations are for the year 1553 Saka.
Of the second branch of the Jyotisha I have to Sahitâ Branch.
announce the acquisition of the
Samhitaskandha, (No. 317), of Toda r malla's Jyotihsukha Salihita. Todaramalla's Jyotihs ukha.
This is one of the volumes of what might be called an encyclopædia of Indian science and lore entitled Todarânanda caused to be compiled by Todaramalla who is represented to have been a Rajả and who was the financial minister of the