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iv PREFACE. Kacikalpalatika, No. 36, and Dattatreya-Sahasranama, No. 94, are other Pauranika works described in this volume. Haribhaktisudhodaya, No. 265, is a part of the Naradapurana. It is complete in 20 chapters and it treats of devotion to Hari. The appearance of a MS. of the Brahmanda purana, No. 144, containing 10,000 Clokas out of 12,000, the traditional extent, goes against the theory that this purana hardly exists in a complete body, but seems to be made up of a large number of Mahatmyas. It is composed of Prakriya, Anusanga, Upodghata, Madhyabhaga and Brahmandavartta padas. The same work in Stein, p. 205, contains only the first two padas. Babu Nagendranatha Vasu in his edition of the Brahmanda purana, in Bengali character, quoting Narada purana, says that there are two works going under this name: one is a Maha and the other an Upa purana. The Maha purana is divided into four parts: Prakriya, Anusanga, Upodghata, and Upasamhara. The topics of the second and third are mostly found in the present codex, but those in the other two, seem to have been very greatly condensed. (1) Kavya.-Bhramaradutam, No. 158, is a wretched imitation of Kalidasa's Meghadutam by Rudra Nyayavacaspati Bhattacaryya, son of Vidyanivasa, and grandson of Vidyavacaspati. He seems to have been the great Nyaya commentator Rudra Nyayavacaspati, and not the poet Rudra Nynyavacaspati who wrote the Bhavavilasa in honour of Mana Simha's son. The father of the poet Rudra is not Vidyanivasa but Vidyavilasa. The work is to be differentiated from the Keral, a work entitled Bhramara Sandeca by Vasudeva, mentioned in page 449, J.R.A.S., 1884. Candradutam, No. 61, by Krsnacandra Tarkalankara, son of Gopikanta Bhattacaryya, is another wretched imitation of the same work. Sabhakaustubha, No. 240, was compiled by Darpanarayana Mitra, under the orders of Harinarayana Mitra Vangadhikari, the Revenue Record-keeper of the Suba of Bengal, and published by Ramanarayana Mitra in B.S.