343 
1897.] M. M. Chakravarti — Language and Literature of Orissa. 
I am using was copied from one found at Nilgiri (a tributary state 
adjoining Balasore) and that the text now and then quotes from Bengali 
works, as Bhavadeva-Paddhati, Smrti-Sara-Sagara, Gaqga-Vakyavail, &c. 
The text of the Praya^citta-Vilocana occupies 161 folios, of which 
34 contain three lines on each page, the rest four lines, and the last 
page one line. It is, therefore, a work of considerable size and deals 
with the subject in a learned manner. It begins with 
SJ 
sf cnTOf^ffor fH 5T3Tc^nW* I 
Translation :—Salutation to Raghunatha I The intelligent Vasudeva 
has composed this Praya^citta-Vilocana having paid his obeisance 
to prl-Ramacandra who is artless, without beginning and without 
illness, who is the seed of this tree of universe, who is more beautiful 
than tens of millions of Kandarpas (Eros), and who is meditated upon 
by the wise, intent on finding out the correct Praya^cittas. In Praya£- 
citta matters numerous works have been composed by the learned, yet 
different opinions exist in the various works ; studying them I have 
attempted this treatise, having compiled in brief their entire substance 
with some skill and fineness. 
The work end thus :— 
«pf 3^ f^rt wwfwjfwfaw 11 
*RTcf ^fcTcf | 
