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64 visayah | vedadisastradanavrttantakathanam | mayuresarupena vinayakena sankhasurasodarasya kama- lasurasya badhatattantakathanam | mayuresvaramahatmya kathananca | 19, 20, 21, 22 adhyaye, - vindhyadesadhipasya ghumabhidhanasya bhupalasya bhrguna saha samvadena rajnah purvvajanmastattantavarnanam | vindhyadesavastavyasya madhavakhyasya brahmanasya patnagra anapatyataya nirvedamapannayah tapasyaya santositat bhagavato varapraptistattantakathanam | madhavaputrastvam hanisyatiti srakasavani nisamya bhumasya mucchi divivaranakathanam | tatra nitijnanam vadanuvada vivaranakathanam | madhava- putrarupena vinayakena dhumabaghastattantakathanam | tasya dhumaketunamapraptikathanam | ganesa- namanirvvacanam | tripurasurasya puratrayanirmanadivrttantakathanam | pinakapanikrta . tripurabadhavivaranakathanam | visesena vinayakamahatmyakathananca | iti sam | No. 1752. skandapuraniyasahyadrikhande renukamahatmyavibhagah | Place of AppearSubstance, country-made paper, 14 x 7 inches. Folia, 113. Lines, 9 on a page. Extent, 2,542 slokas. Character, Nagara. Date, ? deposit, Nasipura, Zillah Murshidabad, Raja Ramachand Simha. ance, fresh. Verse. Generally correct. Renuka Mahatmya. - The history of Renuka, daughter of Renuka, king of Kanyakubja. Siva was charmed by her beauty and wanted to marry her. The work extends to 64 chapters, and comprises a great number of anecdotes regarding various places in Central India, and of Rama's peregrinations during his exile. It is said to be a part of the Sahyadri Khanda of the Skanda Purana. Beginning. om namo bhagavate vasudevaya | narayanam namaskrtya naracaiva narottamam | devim sarakhatincaiva tato jayamudirayet || rsaya ucuh | yat tvaya kathitam skanda bhuktimukti phalapradam | virajam mekhalam tirtham tadasmabhih srutam prabho || matrtirthamiti khyatam vistarad bruhi sanmukha | ka caikavora sa devi jamadagnisva ko vibho || yasya garbhe samudbhutah sa ramah ksatriyantakah | jamadagnih kathambhutah ko dhenu m tasya vaharat ||