Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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sundara, (see Colebrooke's Essays). Surya gives a list of his own works at the end of the Tajikâlamkâra. The passage is corrupt; but on comparing it with another copy of it given by Professor Weber in the Berlin Catalogue I find he wrote the following works :-Glosses on (1) the Lîlâvatî and (2) the Bîjaganita ; (3) computations according to Sripati's Paddhati, (4) a new Bijaganita, (5) Tajika, the present work, (6) another Tajika, (7) a Kâvyâshtaka, and (8) Bodhasudhâkara, a Vedântic work; (X., Appendix II.). The dates 1460 and 1463 Saka are given by Colebrooke as occurring in two of his works. No. 318 is a manuscript of the Tâjikakaustubha
by Balakrishna who lived at Tajikakaustubha by Jambusara. Balakrishma.
His father was
Yâdava whose great-grandfather Ramajit (Râmji) was, according to Balakrishna, a very learned man and lived at a place situated on the northern bank of the Tâpî. Râmajit had a son of the name of Narayana and his son was Râmakrishıņa who was the father of Yâdaya. Balakrishna's other works are:--Stotras of Narayana, Sam. kara, Sivâ (Durga), Ganapati and Trivenî, Yoginyashtadasâkrama, of which we have a copy, and Samkrantinirnaya; (Y., Appendix II.).
Another manuscript that deserves notice is called Manittha Tajika.
Manitthatâjika, (No. 324), and
the work is ascribed to Manitthâchârya. Manittha is mentioned by Varahamihira in his Jâtaka and identified by Professor Weber with Manetho, author of the Apotelesmata. Varâhami. hira's commentator Utpala quotes passages from the work attributed to Maạittha which however I have not been able to find in the present manuscript. A man of the name of Manittha could not have composed this treatise, since in one place the author
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