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THE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS. bhutesasya viharabhumiratula kapyasti vacamabhuh pracamapyativelanaija garima kailasanama girih || 8309 yah kila jagati sauvargavisayaparavasa nirjaravarganirargalasukhabharanisamanaksana- tisamhitabuddhibhirabhisandhimatkarma tatinirmana sudurormila prasastibhira prakrta carmadehaih karmadevaih vadhulagotramaddaniya guhantarodyadvallisahaya kavisimha mukhodite'smin | acaryadigvijayasamjnamahaprabandhe kolahalo'yamudabhutprathamah prathiyan || End : Colophon: iti sasthah || kascaiीvislatha buddheh prancyapi nasyanti tasya sukrtani | kancivislathanatpragurvyammudito na kinnarakah || adhikanci kascidupajagmusarimamadhikancitakrtirakeिsvanasraya | sritakamakotirarucanmadhudviso hrtakamakotisusumasya sodari || gurusisyau samupase srimannarasimhabharatisamjnau | anayoh sadharmanorapyabhinavavikhyatirasya sisyo'bhut || jiyadvisuddhibhunnamacaryanam parampararya nah | syamalataruciragale samarpita malikeva muktanam || The following is a brief summary of the contents of the work: Gd Siva on being requested by the gods to lessen the wicked practices of the world, promised to them that he would incarnate as a man and was born as the son of Vidyadhiraja in the village of Kaladi in Malabar. After the death of his father which occurred in his seventh year, his mother performed to the orphan the ceremony of Upanayana. The boy showed signs of his future greatness and mastered in his eighth year all departments of knowledge. One day, when he was bathing in a river, a crocodile caught hold of him and on the boy making up his mind to enter the ascetic order of life he got out of its grip. At the village of Pundarika, he was formally initiated into the holy order by the ascetic Govinda...