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154 No. 743. bhuvanesvari sahasranamastotram | Substance, country yellow paper. Folia, 10. Lines, 5-6 on a page. Extent, 179 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date ? Place of deposit, Mandalkhanda. Vikramapura, Dhaka, Vaikunthanatha Chakravarti. Appearance, old. Verse. Generally correct. Bhuvanesvari-sahasranama-stotra. A hymn to Bhuvanesvari, a form of Durga, in which a thousand epithets are strung together in her praise. The work is acknowledged to be a section of the Meruviraha Tantra. Beginning. sriparvatyuvaca | devadeva mahadeva sarvasastravisarada | End. kapalakhankangaghara citabhasmangalepaka || ya yadya prakrtirnitya sarvasastresa gopita | cyasyah sribhuvanesvaryyi namastakasahasrakam || bhayamapi madhusiktaih kunkumadyairbisesat || Colophon. iti sivaparvatisamvade meruvirahatantre sribhuvanesvarisahastranamastotram samaptam || visayah | bhuvanesvarisahakhanamakathanadi | No. 744. tripurasundarimantranamasahasram | Substance, country yellow paper. Folia, 13. Lines, 3-5 on a page. Extent, 201 slokas. Character, Bengali, Date ? Place of deposit, Mandalkhanda., Vikramapura, Dhaka, Babu Vaikunthanatha Chakravarti. Appearance, old. Correct. Tripurasundari-mantra-namasahasra. A hymn, similar to the last, in praise of Tripurasundari, another form of Durga. It is an extract from the Vamakesvara Tantra of Purnananda Paramahansa. Beginning. kailasasikhare ramye nanaratnopasobhite | End. kalpapadapamadhyasthe siddhagandharvasevite || manimandapamadhyasthe nanapuspopasabhite | . tam kadacit sukhasinam bhagavantam jagad gurum || dehante paramam sthanam yat surairapi durlabham | sa yasyati na sandehah stavarajasya kirttanat ||