Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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Bharoch by Arddhasera (Ardesar) who was a learned Adhyâru or priest of the Pârasîka race for his son to study. This shows that about four hundred and fifty years ago Parsi priests valued and cultivated the study of Sanskrit lore (CC. 1, Appendix II.) There are several other smaller treatises, and among them may Bopadeva's Śataślokî. be mentioned two copies of Bopadeva's Sataslokî and another of his commentary on the work, which however wants a few leaves, (Nos. 378-380). Bopadeva, as is well known, was the son of Kesava and pupil of Dhaneśa. He was patronized by Hemâdri, the minister of Mahadeva, the Yadava king of Devagiri. This fact is however mentioned not in his medical treatises but in the Harilila, a summary of the Bhagavata. At the end of the Sataśloki it is stated that both Bopadeva's father and teacher lived at a place called Sârtha situated on the banks of the Varadâ. Bopadeva therefore was a native of Berâr. (DD., Appendix II.).
CLASS XIV. TANTRIKA LITERATURE.
Of the Tântrika literature we have manuscripts of two Tantras, the Sivarahasya and the Gautamîyamahâtantra, (Nos. 400, 401, and 385). The rest are digests or extracts from some of the larger Tantras, one of the former being the Tantrasâra by Krishnânandabhattacharya, (No. 388).
CLASS XV.-ART.
There are copies of four works on technical subjects. Two of these are on architecture, one entitled Rajavallabhamandana, (No. 404), and the other Vastumandana, (No. 405). In the colophon of the first it is stated that Mandana, a Sûtradhâra Mandana's works. or architect, who was in the service of Kumbhakarna, king of Medapâța, composed the work, and by his devotion to Ganapati and to his teacher and the propitiation