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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195 No. 4064. vakroktipancasika | Substance, country-made paper, 13 x 3 inches. Folia, 22. Lines, 12 on a page. Extent, 693 slokas. Character, Nagara. Date, ? Place of deposit, Vegune, Zilla Barddhamana, Sadananda Bhattacharya. Appearance, decayed. Text, verse and commentary. Prose. Correct. Vakrokti-panchasika. Fifty stanzas containing a dialogue between Hara and Parvati. The work was composed by Ratnakara, a great poet of Kashmir, who wrote an epic entitled Hara Vijaya. He had the literary title of Vagisvara Vidyadhipati. The commentator is Vallabha Deva, son of Ananda Deva, the minister who appears to have lost his life in battle. Vallabha has left commentaries on Sisupalabadha and other well-known poems. Beginning. savyalambanametadadya bhavato nihsneha muncamyaham savyalam vijahihi sundari vanam nihkhehata nasti me | maivam vaksyasi vanam nanu jalam murdhna mayaivocyate vakroktyeti himadrijamavacasam kurvvan harah patu vah || tam halahalabhtatkarosi manaso mucchim samalingito halam naiva bibharmi naiva ca halam mugdhe katham halikah | satyam dalikataiva te samucita saktasya govahane vakroktyeti jito himadrisutaya smero harah patu vah || taukayah | bagausvaraum namaskrtya ganananca tathesvaram | vakroktivarnane ratne pancika kriyate laghu || savyalambanam vamabhagavasthanam | savyalam vyalaih dustasattvaih sahitam vananca | dantyausprayorhi sabda- lankaresu yamakavakroktyadisu na tatha ityadi | End. vakroktipancasatimityamenam yo bhavayenmatsarariktabuddhih | spastottarasvaktisu kavyabandhe bhavetsa ratnakaravatpravaunah 6 taukayah | ratnakarah kavibaro haravijayakavyakarah tadvatpravaunah kusalah syat | vanuranandadevasya ranabhuvyomni bhatvatah |