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GANGAVATARANA-CAMPUH (Sanskrit) of Shankara Balakrishna Dixit edited by Dr Gaya Caran Tripathi Ganganath Jha Central Sanskrit University, Chandrashekhar Azad Park, Allahabad, 1996, pp 67 + 159, Price not mentioned The Gangavatarana-campūh (middle of 18th Cent Dr GC Tripathi publishes CE) for the first time It describes the legend of the descent of the Ganges in a literary form of a Campū It has been authored by a Maharashtrian named Śamkara Dīksit of Benaras It is undoubtedly a work of high literary merit The work has been ably edited on the basis of two manuscripts preserved in Benaras, although both of them have not preserved the original text so well as to yield a satisfactorily critical edition of the work. In his learned and exhaustive Introduction Dr Tripathi has fully dealt with the topics like the authorship, the term Campū and its genre, the manuscript: material, the contents of the original Sankrit work, the date of its composition the plot, the works read by the author, the other works of the author, the author's estimate as a poet, the political situation of Benaras and around during the times of the poet, and so on At the end of the book the editor has given an index of the verses, and in the three appendices that follow, he has given excerpts from Ms No 24792 of the Vidyapith containing the writings of the author, some verses of his second work, and of his third work, respectively And, lastly the editor has obliged u: by given graphic illustration of some of the Citrabandhas, viz , the Khadgabandha, the Sarayantrabandha, the Padmabandha, too The last page gives us a photographic picture in black and white of the clay sculpture o Makaravāhini Gangā at Ahicchatra of the Gupta period Dr Tripathi has thu: a highly commendable service to the academic community, for which he owe our hearty congratulations NMK. BHARATI-MANGALĀYATANAM (Sanskrit) by Dr Ramanarayan Mishra Rangesh Prakashan, Gayatri puram, Pındra, Devariya (UP), 1997, pp 4 + 250 + 2, Rs 70/
This is a collection of poems of Dr Ramanarayan Mishra, Reader, Ganganatha Jha Central Sanskrit University, and Allahabad It includes the Gangāstava o 110 verses (pp 1-19), the Udbodhanam of 13 verses and the Acāryābhivandanan of 10 verses (pp 20-23), the Manobhāvaprastutth of 291 verses (pp 24-73), the
