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xi PREFACE. Sararakanyayaraksa (siksa) mani, by Appaya Diksita (No. 295), is a commentary by Appayadiksita on the Sarrakabhasya. Samksepasarirakaryakhyanam, entitled Siddantadapa, by Visvaveda (317), is a commentary on Samksepasariraka by Sarvajnatman. Samksepasariraka-subodhini (318), by Purusottama Misra, is also a commentary on the same work. Visvaveda's commentary on Samksepasariraka seems to have been the first commentary on the work, as Ramatirtha whose commentary is described by Eggeling in pp. 742-43, had the Siddhantadipa before him, and as the commentator of 318 was a pupil of Ramatirtha and followed him in his commentary. Siddhanta-Ratnarali, by Agnicit Balabhadra Misra (342), is a short treatise on the Adraita system of the Vedanta philosophy. Manana Grantha (208), in sixteen varnakas, is a work in praise of Vairagya. The work commences with an obeisance to Vasudeva Yati and has, as the first sloka, the usual mangalacaranam of Sayanacarya vagosadyah sumanasah etc. All notices of this work are unsatisfactory. Rama-Ratnakaratika (236), by Mahamudgala, is a commentary on a work entitled Rama-Ratnakara. A work of the same name by Madhuvrata is mentioned by Aufrecht in p. 518 as coming from Oudh, a province noted for Rama-cult. From the extracts given under this number, the work has a strong Advaita tendency representing Rama as the Brahman. Nrsinhasarma is a well-known and voluminous writer of the Advaita School, and his Advaita- Ratnakosa is a wellknown work. The present volume contains the description of an incomplete and dilapidated manuscript of a commentary on the work, under No. 7. The author's name is lost by a lacuna His Guru's name is Krsnananda, and he makes his obeisance to Mahesvaranandatirtha, Sankara and Sankarananda. This is a different commentary from that by Agnihotra mentioned by Hulztsch in his Extract No. 500.