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 62 THE DfDIAX ANTIQUARY. [Mahcii, lfl"k bud to make its contents accessible to science- After some trouble I succeeded iu solving the mystery, nud it. turnsont that the luiurijitu'l'' Cft the Bhiiudiir has l»on very much exaggerated, but iu contents ure nevertheless of great value. According to an old list, which was prepared obont 'JOyonrango by ft Tat I, Che iinL'ijjudtui- 1.1 mt. n in ad then 422 different works* Ifc is clear, however, from what I observed, thnt the list is made with gZOttt PflTOtflaflri tlif number of bonks which existed at tluil lime amounted to from -ViO to -J-GO. These MSS. are mostly written 00 palmyra leaves, and go Irack to a very 01 t&Obi 'Into. At present there is only a remnant of what was at one time a splendid collection. The Bbindar still contains about this or bandies of well-preserved |wiltiiym MSS., a very great mass of loose und Invken palmyra leaves, four or five small boxes full a? paper MSS., and a few dozen bandies of paper loaves torn and disordered. The completely
 * -ved palmyra MS5. which are all written

with t pen* not with a stylus, contain very few Jain works. Of these there are only a I Oi nvntti,& KnmalniQalaTlNi, %Pmtijr.kahi<tl- tlfoKhariia, a VifeeRfivaii/aka, and a few frog* inents of Sutras, as well as a great part or He mac hand ru 'k grammar (diilhy. 1— v.), and a commentary on thu jbirktirthaztihyrana, which, like the commentaries on almost nil the works of II e m a c b a n d r a, is composed by the author himself* The title of the latter work i&AwkdrthnkairavarakitHmwlt. Itsdiseov- 10 far important as the genuineness of Iftt&fntfitofo hitherto doubted, is thereby placed beyond question, Thu remaining palmyra ilSS. contnin Rrab> vaI hooka belonging to the Kartj(i' t J Uojt- '&tj ■tttihiya, the bitter of which has. also an old luid very MM ' & bj V i d y a d h a r a . (Couf. al H8S. fivm trAV.No.IL p. 9G,Ko. 124.) Theo then is aitm a Bhafti&dvya with tbejUd uf.laya- Bi n nga la.' IScside* wo found the folbwitv ,U3 W works : the Vlkramdhiufffntrittt hy II i 1 h n n n nr V i I h u n a, the GaudiismJhmihw by L" pons • U ibit tar nuno of ir» nnibor ? tb«t wwiy o* tiv> wmai'uta.Ufn of il»; tin conaaeatary aatkr Uw auueof J„ "1 i. :-l, I d r a - E k r i p a 1 a, the Ghokmp&ntk&Vjfa by 3 L ] i ii r in. h n k n h m i db a ra . Among these the Y-!?(r(ti/<nhfarhiiritn is of the greatest im- portance. It is a historical work, that gives the history of fjuinesvara 1, strrnamed X h a v a m a 1 1 u T S o m u a v a r u II, or Bhu- vnncvikamnlla.t and ofVikramadit. y tt d eve, snmamed T r i b h n vn n a m a I I a -J Ail the three ate well known to liave roigDOfl ia the 1 1th contnry nt K a 1 y ft n a k a I a k a in the Di-kliim, aiiii to luvve iKilijnged to iho fjimily of the ClkJVI nkyas, commonly knoivn as 8 - 1 a n k i h. B i I h a n a also relates bin own y at jux'tiy cunsiderable lcii^th t and says that V ikraiuudit y adu va madn him his Vldyupati. He wrrcte the work, as it appears. in hi* old s«r, bnt still under the reign of VikramJidityn, and consequently givca only a part of the history of tlust prince. The work in divide*'! it: to U? turgor, and contains £545 Hokat. Hi 1 ban a has taken the Rajhu* i for hb model, and ehangra Ins metre in almost every tartja. He rays that he writes in thu Vaitlarbha style, but he uses very hiirh lan- guage. His by greatly inar the effect of Ins poetTy. N evert lie lew there are Home pas- sages that are really jmx'Lic and correspond to onr tastes. Besides acconnts ofVi krama'a many warlike expeditions, already known to us Lhrongh many inscriptions, there are many other notices that are highly interesting. Thus we le&m that SomeuvarnTL was the elder brother of V i k r a m a, and was dethroned by the latter. B i I h a rj a describes Somewvnra as a mailman, who bore a deadly hatred to- wawl« his mora talented brother, and who, after his llight from K a 1 y « n a, sought to destroy hini. It was with difficulty, and only at the express command of the family god Siva, Vikrajaa resolved to fight against his hro» ther. In tl»o battle he was notorious, and took Knmcsvnra prisoner. Another 1 1 g Iiossage is the description of a which was held by the daughter of the K a rah a tap at i, and in which she chose i k r-i i -i I :m her conwjrt. B i I h n n n T while bis own history, regrets thnt he should not hare been able to visit U D h 4 r | , of Bhoju and Munja £» aatfaoT saaer li B t al J » Tt w « a« a 1 « k I r S.-S.P J.