Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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Målajit (Malji), that he was conversant with the Vedas and Vedangas, and got from the emperor of Delhi (Dhillliiśvara) the title of Vedângaraya. Målajit or Vedâugarâ ya was the son of Tigalâbhatta who was the son of Ratnabhatta. Ratnablatta lived at Srîsthala in Gujarat. Copios of a few works on divination will also be
found entered in the accomWorks on Divination. panying catalogue. Bhoja’s Vidvaj ja na
One of vallabha.
them is entitled Vidvajjanaval
labha, (No. 337), and is ascribed to king Bhoja who is represented to have been a powerful sovereign; (BB., Appendix II.). The last manuscript in this class that I shall notice
is the Narapatijayacharyâ, (No. Narapatijayacha r y a 331), a treatise on omens by by Narapati.
Narapati. The author wrote this book at Anahilapattana in the reign of Ajayapâla who occupied the Chaulukya throne from 1174 to 1177 A.D.; (Ind. Ant., Vol. VI., p. 213). He finished the work on Tuesday the first of the light half of Chaitra in the year 1232 of Vikrama corresponding to 1176 A.D. Narapati's father was Âmradeva who lived at Dhârâ, the capital of Màlava, which country was, according to our author, the “ abode of learning.” There is another copy of the Narapatijayacharyâ in last year's collection, (CC., Appendix II).
CLASS XIII.-MEDICINE. In the class of works on Hindu Medicine we have
fragments of the Charaka and Charaka, Suśr uta, Sušruta Samhitâs and a copy of Vägbhata. The last transcribed for a Parsi vagonața s important work, the in A.D. 1430.
Ashtângayogahridaya, which
however is incomplete. The last manuscript was caused to be transcribed in the Samvat year 1486 or 1430 A.D. at Bhrigukshetra or