Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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Chachchart on the precepts engraved hy Jinavallabha on the walls of certain temples. He once went to Naravara and thence to Tribhuvanagiri where he preached the truth to king Kumârapâla.
Besides the works named above Sumatigaņi quotes from or refers to the following :-Pravachanasâra, a Smriti, Bharataśâstra, Damâdhyâya, a Prayoga, Âvaśyakachûrņi, Daśavaikâlika, Chitrakútîyaprašasti by Jinavallabha, and Upadeśamâlâ. He also quotes some verses which are now found in the Panchatantra. The Râmacharitra in prose was composed by
Devavijayagaņi, pupil of RâjaRamacharitra.
a. vijayasûri, who himself was a pupil of Vijayadânasûri, the Yugapradhâna or head of the Tapâgachchha. It was written at Śrîmâlapura in Marusthalî or Mârrâd in the year 1652 Samvat or 1596 A.D. in the reign of Akbar. The author tells us that in the composition of his work he followed Hemachandra's Râmâyana and that he wrote it in prose, though there was a Râmacharitra in verse in the Prâkțit as well as Sanskrit, to divert himself and also to put an end to his Karman. (QQ., Appendix II.).
Escamination of private Libraries.--As to the other branch of the work the libraries of the following persons at Nâsik have been catalogued this year :-- Sitârâmas'âstrî Pațvardhan. Râmas'âstrî Châmdorkar. Nârâyaņas'âstri Sâțhe.
Yadus'âstrî Takle. Vishnu Gangadhar Mâchegan. Devrâv Hosing. Achyutas'âstrî Dâtâr. Govindbâbâ Vaidya. Eighteen libraries were reported to have been catalogued last year; so that twenty-six in all have been examined at Nasik. The printing of these catalogues has now been begun. There is very little work left to be done at Nâsik and my Sâstri intended to go to Trimbak to catalogue the private collections existing there. But in the month of June last he was car
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