CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 33 ancient astrological work come down to our time ; written in anushtubh verse, and partly in prose. Unfortunately, the MS. is in a condition perfectly useless for any critical purposes : the more so as, towards the middle of the work, the transcriber has mislaid the leaves of his original* A number of passages cited by Utpala, the commentary on the Jyotisha, and Eaghunandana, have, however, been verified in this copy.^ Fol. ^ is wanting.* Fol. ^ begins : Fol. 13. Yrihadgargakrite Jyotishe Bamvatsaranirde^o nama | ^ Yenes 11-13 of the second chapter of the BrihatsamhitS, occur literally on fol. 3a. ' The copy in Bengali character, formerly in the possession of Mons. 6u6rin, and now preserred in the Imperial Library in Paris, begins with the line : — ^iffllMR Tnret f^nj^ 'ft^ J*^l*lf Mi^^JH^R I Atraclngofthe beginning and end has been kindly procured for me by Professor Breal. 3 Kroshtuki, to whom, in the first part, all information is addressed, is, accord- ing to one passage, the eldest son of Garga. . 5
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