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235 &c., &c. By Vidyapati. The author was a distinguished poet, and, according to tradition current in Tirhoot, lived during the reign of Raja Siva Sinha of Tirhoot, who granted him a patent conveying a small plot of land in the year two hundred and ninety-three of Lakshmana Sena'sera, which would be equal to the Christian era 1400. The Saduktikarnamrita (ante No. 1180) however, quotes from the works of a Vidyapati, and the Sadukti itself was completed in the year 1205, A. C., or nearly two hundred years before Siva Sinha. Thus we have two Vidyapatis, and it is doubtful who wrote the work under notice. Tirhoot tradition assigns it to the second. Beginning. svastyastu vastuhina rasmibhtatah prasadadekam vapuh sritavato harina sametya | tannabhipankajasahotyammrnalalilamaviskaroti hrdi yasya bhujangarajah || yavadganga vibhati tripuraharajatamandalam mandayanti mallimala sumeroh sirasi sitamahavaijayanti jayanti | End. yata patalamulam sphuradamala rucih sesa nirmmokivalli tavadvisvasadevya jagati vijayatam gangavakyavali yam atha bhaktisraddhapurahsarameva sarvakarmmavisesamaha | ato bhaktisraddhe avasya me va karttavye, tatha ca yamah | - sraddha bhaktisca kamyanam vrddhiksemakare hi te | ityadih | gangatiram parityajya ye'nyatirthabhilasinah | toyantare ratiryesam te vai rauravagaminah || yavat svargatarangini harajatabhrastantara lambate yavadvisvavisalavistrtakarah svaryyo'yamujjrmbhate | yavanmandalamaindavam vitanute sammah siromandalam tavat kalpalateyamastu saphala devyah satam sreyasi || kiyannibandhamalokya srividyapati rina | gangavakyavali devyah pramanairvimalikrta Colophon. iti srividyapativiracita gangavakyavali samapta | visayah | ganganamasmaranaprakaranam | tatra bhaktisradadilacanam | smaranaprayogah | ( evam para- trapi prayogo boddhavyah ) | namasankirttanadimahatmakathanam | yatraprakaranam | gangavasamahatmyam | yatrapursvadine kesavapanadikarttavyata | sraddhavidhanam | sravanamahatmapradikathanam | gamanaprakaranam | viksana prakaranam | namaskaraprakaranam | sparsanakaranam | samanyatah sarvatirthapraptisraddhaprakaranam | mundanadikathanam | 2 F 2