A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras
by M. Seshagiri Sastri | 1901 | 1,488,877 words
These pages represent "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras"—a scholarly work that systematically details the vast collection of Sanskrit manuscripts held by the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras, now Chennai, India. The catalogue serves as an essential ...
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8524 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE Of Same work as the above. Restored from the MS. described under the previous number. No. 12685. vrsabhanujanatika . VRSABHANUJANATIKA. Substance, paper. Size, 10 * 44 inches. Pages, 146. Lines, 6 on a page Character, Devanagari. Condition, good. Appearance, new. Breaks off towards the close of the fourth act. A Natika by Madhuradasa of Kayastha family. The author is said to have been born at Suvarnasekhara, a town in the country between the Ganges and the Jumna. It deals with the marriage of Radha, daughter of Vrsabhanu, with Lord Krsna as narrated in Krsuajanmakhanda forming part of the Brahmakaivartapurana. It is said to have been enacted on the occasion of the festival of Radbakrsna celebrated in the pleasure garden of Brindavan. Beginning : kapole patrali pulakini vidhatum vyavasitah svayam sriradhayah karakalitavartirmadhuripuh | abhuvandau yannihitanayanah kampitabhuja - stadetatsamarthyam tadabhinavarupasya jayati || [nandyante ]] sutradharah -- bhalamativyahrtena | adya khalu ballavavilasinibhirvinidvara - vindavadanabhih padminibhiriva vilobhyamanamanasahamsasya srimadvrsabhanunandini - padapadmarajora njitopantena mayuramukutenalankrta maulerunmadakalahamsakamini kulakola- halena pulinavalayena mukharamekhalaya parigatanitambabimbeneva virajitayastapana- tanayaya velavanantalatamandapesu samarabdhakandarpakelikalakalapasya yasoda- nandayornayananandajananasya tribhuvanavilobhaniyabhinava kisoravayasah sriradhamoha- nasya brndaranyantargatanam viharavanasthalinamavalokanasukhamanubhavitumanekadesanta- radupasthitena sadhujanavrndena samahuya sadaramabhihito'smi | yatha- " asmatpriyasuhrdatiprabalaya bhagavadbhaktya kayasthakulavatamsatamupagatena janghakanyakakalinditiravaruna madhyadesasirassekharibhute suvarnasekharanamni nagare samavaptapararthyajanmana srimadhuradasena ya viracita vidagdhajanahrdaya kumudanandai - kakaumudi vrsabhanuja namapurvanatika sa bhavatabhinetavya " 1 �