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(B) This has been noticed by Aufrecht in the *Catalogues Catalogorum*, part III, page 97. It belongs to the Oriental Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is written on paper 12'' by 8½″. The first part, to folio 88, is a different work called *Nara-pati-vijaya*. The second part, called *Mānasāra-vāstu* and also *Kumāra-vāstu*, contains 163 folios, each page of which has 16 to 24 lines. Each line contains about three-quarters of a *śloka*. The *ślokas* are not numbered; but on the last page the total is given as 5,760 and this figure is not, of course, verified by actual counting. This has been undoubtedly written by more than one hand. But it is recorded on the last page that this work has been written by one Ramanuj charya for the *Kumpānī bahādur* (the East India Company) in the *Śālivāhana Śaka* era 1677. The date of its being recorded is given in English, 14th April, 1823. The last page contains the mark of a seal in three different scripts—Urdu, Nāgarī, and Bengali. It begins with Chapter XV (*Pāda* or *Stambha*), and folio 108b has the colophon of the last chapter. The remaining folios 108 to 163 contain the first fourteen chapters.