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8152 End: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF davudutanayo vidvan sulaiman jnanavigrahah | dvaparante ca kalyadau mlecchavamse mahatapah || samutpannah sapta suta garbhabdhau candrama iva | evam bhupatirattamitramatulairva strairmahabhusanaih asvairvaranagokharostramahisisvajavikairvisrutaih | sampujyatmajanaih samam svanagarim sampresayamasa ta- varyakaryamavaryamatmani mahascaryena samsmarayan || Colophon : iti srimadayodhyapuradhinathasakalakalasanathavidvajjanajegiyamanagana- vidyanidanadanajitakaninaladakhanapramodasandhana kukavihrdbhallakalyana mahakavi- rajaviracite sulaimaccaritre citrakathapadanam nama caturthah patalah || Substance, paper. 6. KATHA ( STORIES ). No. 12176. kathasaritsagarah . KATHASARITSAGARAH. Size, 134 x 74 inches. Pages, 848. Lines, 21 on a page. Character, Devanagari. Condition, injured. Appearance, old. Breaks off in the seventh Taranga of the tenth Lambaka. This is an abridgment in Sanskrit in 18 Lambakas of Gunadhya's Brhatkatha in the Paisaci language. By Bhattasomadeva, son of Ramabhatta. The author is said to have lived in the court of Ananta who, according to M. A. Stein, ruled in Kashmir in 1028 -1063. The work has been printed in the Nirnayasagara Press. Beginning : idam gurugirindrajapranaya mandarandolanat pura (kila kathamrtam haramukhambudherudgatam ) | prasahya rasayanti ye vigatavighnalabdharddhayo dhuram dadhati vaibudhim bhuvi bhavaprasadena te || sreyo dadatu vah syamah sambhoh kantho manobhuva | a (nkasthaparvatidrstipatairiva vivestitah ) || sandhyanrtyotsave tarah karenodbhuya vighnajit | sitkarasikarairanyah kalpayanniva patu vah || |