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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PREFACE. XXIX pretations of the poem and tries to prove that it was written in honour of the Jagannatha of Puri, that the name Meghaduta does not mean cloud-messenger, but the cloud acts here as a porter, or a crier in a mosque who collects all classes of men to Puri during the Rathayattra, in which Jagannatha for a few days in a year goes to the Gundica house. The Naisadhiya Carita is well known. No. 148 notices a commentary on it, by Udayakara, the son of Svarnadhara, the grandson of Ramadhara, and the great grandson of Gadadhara of Tirabhukti, under the patronage of Thakkura Ramacandra, the son of Thakkura Rajakara, and the grandson of Thakkura Srikara, a Kayastha by caste. On the conclusion of the commentary Ramacandra gave the commentator a ring and two ear rings and other valuables. Vijayapradipikatika (265) should be Vijayaprasastikavyavrtti. It is a commentary in 10,000 slokas on a panegyric on Vijaya. Anandalahari-bhasya-locanam (33), by Ramakavi Dindima, is a new commentary on the Bhasya commentary on the Anandalahari of Sankaracarya. Ramakavi was born at Kanci or Kanjibharam. He travelled in many parts of India for the purpose of Digvijaya, couquest of the world, that is, casting into shade the poets of all places by his facility in versification. In the course of his "conquest" he came to Puri and there he wrote the present commentary to please the Brahmanas. His titles are Mukuta-Raya and Mahapatra 0 NATAKAM. There are five dramas described in this volume, two were written under the patronage of the Rajas of Bhulua in the Noakhali district of East Bengal, and three under the patronage of various Rajas of Udisya. Kuvalayasva-carita (60) is by Laksmana Manikya of Bhulua. Another drama of this Raja has been mentioned in the second volume, p. 160 of the "Notice of Sanskrit