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OF CULTURE MINISTRY OF OF INDIA GOVERNMENT OF SL Colophon. iti gayatri hrdayam samaptam | 252 visayah| gayatrah utpattikathanam | vyatinam tatpayryakathanam gayacarthakathanam | pratah sakhyadi gavacah kamavisesakathanam | gayatrimahatmaka thananca | No. 2187 Substance, foolscap paper, 7 x 3 inches. Folia, 4. Lines, 8 on a page. Extent, 36 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date, P Place of deposit, Ula, Post Ranaghata, Zilla Nadiya, Babu Annadaprasada Prose. Correct. Mukhopadhyaya. Appearance, new. Gayatri-vyakhya. A commentary on the Gayatri hymn. Anonymous. Beginning. ाtha gayatrivyakhya | he dhimahi gayaci dhorbuddhih macci sthanam yaceti krtpa ttih bhargah sivah no'smakam dhiyo'ditih devasya bhagavatah sambandha pracodayat prerayatu bhagavadvi- pathakam jnanam janayavityarthah | ityadi | End. ityanca gayaci caturvimsatyacara sampurni | Colophon. iti gayacityakhya samapta | om tatsat | visayah | gayatrgra vyakhyanam | No. 2188. fufa Substance, country-made yellow paper, 14 x 8 inches. Folia, 12. Lines, 6 on a page. Extent, 186 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date, P Place of deposit, Ula, Post Ranaghata, Zilla Nadiya, Babu Annadaprasada Mukhopadhyaya; another copy at Siudi, Zilla Virabhuma, Kuladananda Mukhopadhyaya. Appearance, new. Prose and verse. Incorrect. Pichchhila Tantra. An apochryphal or medieval Tantra. The codex is incomplete. CONTENTS: I. Faith in spiritual guides. II. Praise of the goddess Kalika. III. Praise of the mantra of Durga. IV. Rules regarding the use of the mantra of Krishna. V. Mantras for removing infertility in women, and for the cure of certain female diseases. VI. Mantras for performing incantations for subjugating and dementing people. VII. Do. for apprehending thieves. VIII-IX. Do. (in the Bengali language) for neutralizing poisons. X. Assumption by Kaulas of Vira and Pasu characteristics during the