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H. P. Sliastri —Notes on Palm-leaf MSS. 
[No. 4, 
second is Spliiirjjidhvaja in 191 of the same era who rendered the 
translation into 4,000 Indravajra verses. The work so rendered first 
into Sanskrit and then into verse is Yavanajataka or the Greek system 
of casting Horoscope, Dr. Kern in a note to the preface to his edition 
of the Brhatsamhita says that Utpala calls Sphurjidhvaja, Yavane^vara ; 
hut this is not tenable as our MS. uses the word , srr^j ‘ formerly,’ i.e . 
Spliiirjjidhvaja rendered into verse what was formerly translated by 
Yavanepvara. 
Yavane£vara is mentioned in the Catalogus Catalogorum as the 
author of many works on Astrology and as being quoted by Bhattot- 
pala, Kecavarka and Vi^vanatha. 
This MS. requires a close examination. The time at my disposal 
being very short, I was satisfied with a rough notice. 
The most ancient MS. in the Library, as far as I examined it, 
appears to be Visnudharma No. 1002. It was written in 
The character is that of the Inscription No. 14 of 
Bhagvanlal Indraji’s Inscriptions from Nepal which is dated in letter 
numerals commencing with ^ and has been referred to 145 of the 
(Jrlharsa era. This MSS. may be referred to the same century. 
is 167, adding 606 to it we get 773 A.D. It is Visnudharma, as it ends 
with the 9 loka— 
f? ffcT ^ I 
S \» V \ 
t s s* \ 
as in our No. 1670 noticed by Dr. Mitra L 2293. 
After the Colophon we have the following:— 
SJ 
In the same number there is another copy of Visnudharma in old 
Devanagari which has the following verse at the end :— 
jrre: ftre 
^cTcJ -TO^JnfHsr: «5I3TcT: ^ 
C\ ^ v 
In the year 210 of prlharsa era (?). 
