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and laboriously attempted to formulate a theory that Viśvakarma formed a connecting link between the Sumarjan civilization on the one hand and the Narmada valley culture on the other.217 Works Ascribed to Viśvakarmā.
The works attributed to yiśvakarmā are as follows :1. Aparā jitapracchā.118 2. Ksirarnava. 1 19 3. Jaya-prcchādhikara. 120 4. Viśvakarmā-mata. 121 5. Viśvakarma-prakāśa 1 23 also known as Vastu-śāstra, 193 6. Višvakarmiya-Śilpa-śāstra. 124
117. Vide P. A. Mankad's Introduction to Aparājita pracchā. p. Ixxxix. 118. Auf. C. C. Vol. II p. 4, quoted by Hemādri in Pariseşa Khanda 2, 660-662, 819, published in G. O. S. No. CXV (1956) Edited by P. A. Mankad. In this work Višvakarmā is attributed as 'Bhuvandevācārya.' A work of similar title and nature termed as "Aparājita-Vāstuśästra' is available. The MS. of it was in possession of Manishanker Bhatt, Surat. (Catalouge of Sans MSS. contained in Private libraries in Gujarat, Kathiawad, Kaccha, Sindh & Khandesha, 1872 p. 276 No. 1) An another work termed as Aparājita-prabhā or Višvakarmā Samhita is also available (Auf. C. C. Vol. III p. 5.) 119. Auf. C. C. II, pp. 26, 138. Copies of MSS. having 19 to 23 chapters of this work are found with certain silpis of Gujarat. Four copies of this MSS. are in my private collection. Five copies of this MSS. ( Nos. 8265 (a), 3588, 3589, 11007 and 8287 ) are in the collection of Oriental Institute, Baroda. 120. Auf. C. C. II, p. 41; MS. No. 6857. in the Oriental Institute, Baroda. 121. Auf. C. C. II. p. 138, quoted by Hemādri in Pariseșa Khanda (2, 817, 825, 827, 828). 122. Egg. MSS. p. 112 a. It is published without any commentary at Benaras, in 1888; with commentary by Sri Venkatesvara Press, Bombay (V. S. 1952). 123. Auf. CC. ll. p. 134. 124. Oriental MSS. Library Madras, Catalogue, Vol. XXII No. 13037, p. 8775.
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