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Alamkara, Sangita and Națya
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Sabrdayāloka with Locana
सहृदयालोक with लोचन (or ध्वन्यालोक or काव्यालोक) No. 184
593. 1887-1891.
Size.- 14 in. by 6 in.
Extent.- 170 (168 + 2 blank folios); 13 lines to a page; 46
letters to a line.
Description.- Country paper, thin but tough and slightly polished
in appearance and greyish in colour; Devanāgari characters; thick, bold and legible hand-writing ; on some folios some notes are added in the margin ; corrections made with yellow pigment; the portion of Kārikās is written in the middle of the folios and indented from the top and bottom portion; the Ms consists of 3 Udyotas with commentary (Locana by Abhinavagupta ) and the 4th Udyota without commentary ; the text of this Ms appears to have been used for the Kavyamālā edition.
Age.- The Ms is not very old. Author.-- The author of the text is Anandavardhana%3; of the com
mentary Locana, Abhinavagupta. Begins:
Text.--
ॐ स्वेच्छाकेसरिणः स्वच्छस्वच्छायायासितेन्दवः । त्रायंतां वो मधुरिपोः प्रपन्नातिछिदोनखाः॥१॥
comm.
ॐ श्रीगणाधिपतये नमः। ॐ नमो गुरवे सरस्वतीरूपाय नमः । ॐ नमोऽमरेश्वरभैरवाय । ॐ उपास्महे स्वानुभवैकवेद्यं स्वच्छंदमानंदसमुद्रमीशम् । व्याप्तं जगच्छक्तितरत्तरंगैरदृष्टपारं परमेष्ठिनापि ॥
