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4448 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF No. 5726. sivasamayankamatrka . SIVASAMAYANKAMATRKA. Pages, 255. Lines, 20 on a page. Begins on fol. 128 a of the MS. described under No. 5694. Complete. Same work as the above. No. 5727. sivarcanasiromanih . SIVARCAN ASIROMANIH. Substance, palm-leaf. Size, 10 * 1 1/2 inches. Pages, 346. Lines, 8 on a page. Character, Grantha. Condition, good. Appearance, old. Incomplete. Contains Ullasas 16 to 21. The sixteenth Udreka from the Paranandatantra is quoted herein and referred to in the colophon in a wrong place.. On the conduct of the worship of Sakti as given in various Agama treatises. There are two colophons at the end, of which one attributes the authorship of the work to Srinarayananandanatha, a disciple of Samvida nandanatha, and the other attributes it to Brahmanandanatha, a disciple of Srilokanandanatha. Beginning : atha samksepato baladiksa likhyate | vaksyamanaprakarena mantapantam pravisya, anujnamadaya, guruvaranadi abhyudayam krtva tatah mantapam viksanadicatussamskaraissams krtya, mantapamalankatya, dhupayitva vastvisadipa- nathapujam krtva, bhutotsaranam vidhaya, bhumim prarthya, Colophon : * * * " iti sri lokanandanathasisyena brahmanandanathena viracite sivarcana- siromani sodasollasah End : iti svagurum pranamya tatah sisyah sriguroranujnam labdhva, phaladi- padusopetam brahmanan bhojayet ||