- Introduction.
The second volume of the Manasollasa, the encyclopaedic work of the Western Calukya King Sameśvara, is now offered to the Sanskrit knowing public. The volume contains the whole of the third Vimsati in twenty chapters and part of the fourth Vimsati comprising fifteen chapters. The third Vimsati deals with the twenty kinds of Upabhogas or enjoyments, while the fourth treats of the twenty kinds of Vinodas or royal sports, out of which only fifteen are described in the present volume. The remaining five Vinodas and the last Vimsati, namely, the Krīdāvimśati will appear in the third or the last volume. It is worthy of note that in the 4th Vimsati the chapter on Music is the longest and equals in length the whole of the first volume. This, no doubt, bespeaks the great interest the royal author King Someśvara took in the science and perhaps also in the art of Music.
- THE MSS. MATERIAL.
The present volume is prepared with the help of the following four MSS:-
- A. Belongs to the Oriental Institute. It is a complete copy prepared with the help of three MSS.
- B. Belongs to the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. It is incomplete. In this MS. even the Grhopabhoga or the first Adhyaya of the third Vimsati is not complete.
- D. Complete. It did not give much help in the preparation of this volume, since the subjects treated of in this volume are
unusual; it is full of mistakes. It belongs to the Bikaner Durbar and we have a photostat copy of the same in our collection.
- F. Complete but full of mistakes. This belongs to the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute, Poona.
- SUBJECT-MATTER.
The first Adhyaya of the third Vimsati opens with Muhurta Jyotisa or the Science of Astrology for finding aut auspicious moments while