Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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xvi PREFACE. Brahmana who obtained from the Emperor the title of Vanirsala Raya, and who is described as an ornament of learned men. The author's ancestors held for a long time the position of Dharmadhikara at Benares. The genealogy runs thus:his his Mahipati Pandit. son Ananta Pandita. son Krsna Pandita. his grandson Narayana Pandit. his sons Nilakantha and Khandoraya. The author quotes from the original Smrtis, the Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Visnudharmottara, the Cambapurana, the Bhavisyapurana, Vaikhanas and other Agamas, the Caiva Agamas, Medhatithi, Kalpataru, Kaladarca, Mitaksara, Hemadri, Paracaramadhava, Smrticandrika, Smrtyarthasara, Madanavala, Smrtidarpana, Prayogaparijata, Siddhantacekhara, Nyaya, Panini, Mimamsa and the Agamas. He does not quote from Kamalakara. He, therefore, seems to have flourished in the beginning of the seventeenth century or a little earlier. The 25 th chapter of this work is devoted to the origin and position of the Cakadvipi Brahmanas. Prayogadarpana, No. 132, is different from L. 1,775 and L. 2,773. It is anonymous and complete. It deals with the last rites of man, his cremation, and his craddha. The author makes his obeisance to Cridhara the author of Smrtyartha-sara and to all compilers down to his Guru. Maharnavakarmavipaka, No. 159, a work on Karmavipaka, i.e., diseases, good fortune, and misfortune generated by good or evil deeds in previous births. The work is by the same Vicvecvara Bhatta who compiled the Madanaparijata, but this time the patron was not Madanapala the Kacchva Raja but his second son Mandhata. Vakyatattva, No. 185, is a part of the Dvaitatattva by Siddhanta pancanana who wrote also a commentary on Dacakarma. The work treats of Vakya or Samkalpavakya, i.e., the wording of resolution to perform any religious duty. It should contain the