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Name Of The Text: बृहत्संहिता अथवा वाराहीसंहिता(Bṛhatsaṃhitā or Vārāhīsaṃhitā.)

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Total Manuscripts: 1

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Language: jy.

Details Of The Text: in 106 or 107 adhys. by Varāhamihira. But the adhys. on Vātalakṣaṇa, Rajolakṣaṇa, Aṅgavidyā, Piṭakādhyāya, Vivāhapaṭala, Nakṣatrajātaka and Śāstrānukramaṇī are believed to be interpolations. See Intro. p. 18 to Sarasvatī Bhavan edn. noted below. The penultimate verse in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (106. 13) gives its extent as 100 adhys. See p. 38 of Ajay Mitra Shastri's study noted below. On the life and works of Varāhamihira and cultural study of Bṛhatsaṃhitā see Ajay Mitra Shastri, India as seen in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1969. For an index of the adhys. see Paliyam 66 (b). On the ch. on Sculpture in the work see J. Scheftelowitz, Varāhamihira's Bṛhatsaṃhitā und das Bhaviṣyapurāṇa (in German), Festschrift M. Winternitz pp. 51 ̶ 55. On the Ratnaparīkṣā see Louis Finot, Les Lapidaires Indiens, Paris, 1896, pp. 59 ̶ 75. Ptd. (1) ed. by Hern. Bib. Ind. 48. 1865. (2) ed. by Jibananda Vidyasagara. Calcutta, 1880. (3) ed. by Panchanana Tarkaratna. Vangavasi Press. Calcutta, 1882. (4) with C. of Bhaṭṭotpala. ed. by Sudhakara Dvivedi in 2 vols. Viz. Skt. Ser. 12. 1895. 1897; Reprint. ed. by Avadh Vihari Tripathi. Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamālā 97. Varanasi, 1968. See also under Transl. (5) with Malayalam C. Ratnaprabhā by P. S. Purushottaman Namputiri. Sri Ramavilasam Quilon, 1934 (1st edn.). 1955 (2nd edn.). Transls.: Bengali: with text; by Dhirananda Kavyanidhi. Vangavasi Press. Calcutta, 1910. English: (1) N. Chidambaram Iyer. Aryan Miscellany Saṃhitā Ser. in 3 pts. Madura, 1884 ̶ 85. (2) by H. KernVerspreide geschriften. Gravenhagen, 1913. (3) with text; by V. Subrahmanya Sastri and M. Ramakrishna Bhat. 2 vols. Bangalore, 1947. Hindi: with text; by Baladevaprasada Misra. Lakshmi Venkateswara Press. Bombay, 1897. Marathi: with text; Jaganmitra Press. Ratnagiri, 1873.

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