Volume 14 (1904)

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PREFACE.
Jyotiḥsamkṣepa by Kṛṣṇadāsa Cakravartti, the son of Rama-
candra Cakravartti, a Vārendra Brahmin of Dinajpur; (3)
Jyotiḥsamkṣepasāra by Kṛṣṇacandra; (4) Jyotiḥsāra samgra-
haḥ by Srīpati; (5) Jyotiḥsara by Dharmakhāna composed
about the year 1777 Samvat = A.D. 1721, and copied in Saka
1670-1748 A.D.; the author Dharmakhāna belonged to the
Simhavamsa of Rāḍhā.
Ayuḥprabodhini by Rādhākṛṣṇa is on the astrological
calculations on the longevity of men.
Samudrikacintamani, by Madhava Grāmakara, is a work
on divination.
Brhatsamgraha is a compilation of astronomical, as-
trological and other subjects, by Revati Sarmā, the son of
Devidatta, the son of Caitanyakṛṣṇa, the son of Nārāyaṇa
Tripada, belonging to the Sandilya gotra and professing the
Kauthumi sākhā of the Samaveda. Revati śarmā compares
himself to Hanuman and was an inhabitant of Prakhyā-
yikāpura, otherwise known as Panditatola.
Praśnavidya by Canḍeśvara is a work on divination.
Erotics:-Manmatha Samhita is the only book on erotics
in this volume. Rati and Madana have been introduced here
as interlocutors. The present MS. containing five chapters
appears to be the Phalgunamāhātmya of the Samhitā.
Drama: There are three dramatic works noticed in this
volume. The first is Bhartṛharinirveda by Harihara
Upadhyāya, dealing with the renunciation of the world by
Rājā Bhartṛhari on the death of his wife Bhanumatī. It is
written in the interest of the Saiva sect, at the festivities in
honour of Bhairaveśvara, and Gorakṣanātha comes at the
end to pronounce the epilogue. The second is Prabodhodaya,
an allegorical representation by Suklesvaranātha, enacted
at the court of Bhagavantarāya of the family of Sagara,
who flourished in the 17th century. (See pp. 38, Vol. II., of
the Sanskrit College Descriptive Catalogue.) He ordered
that the whole performance should be in Sanskrit. The
subject-matter of the drama is the dispute between the