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145 See on archery (dhanurveda): J. Auboyer (1955): 5–20, (1956); S.C. Banerji (1988): 300–301; V.R.R. Dikshitar (1987); P.K. Gode (1947j); E.W. Hopkins (1889): 269–281; R. Krishnamurthy (1995): 339–352; H. Losch (1955); S.D. Singh (1989); Winternitz III, 532. A Dhanurvedasaṃhitā, ascribed to Vasiṣṭha, has been edited: *(a) ed., Saṃskṛt Pustakālaya, Merath 1988; *(b) ed., with Bengali translation, by Pandit Iswar Chandra Sastri and Arun Chandra Sinha, Maharaja Kumud Chandra Memorial Series 1, Calcutta 1922; (c) ed., with a Hindī translation, by Dvārakāprasāda Śāstrī, Kashi Sanskrit Series 267, Vārāṇasī 1989; *(d) ed. and translated by Pūrṇimā Rāy, Delhi 1991. A Dhanurveda, compiled from various sources, has recently been published: Dhanurveda (Sub-Veda of Yajur-Veda); compilation, translation (into Hindī) and commentary: Dr. Devvrat Acharya, Vijaykumar Govindram Hasanand, Delhi 1999. V.R.R. Dikshitar (1987: 367) refers to a Tryambakadhanurveda and a Viracintāmaṇidhanurveda (this is an extract from the Śārṅgadharapaddhati according to CC I, 594). The Traiyambakadhanurveda is quoted in Mitramiśra's Viramitrodaya, Lakṣaṇaprakāśa, nānāyudhalakṣaṇaprakaraṇa, p.276–278, 280; the same applies to the Viracintāmaṇidhanurveda (nānāyudhalakṣaṇaprakaraṇa, p.279–284) and the Auśanasadhanurveda (rājacakalakṣaṇaprakaraṇa, p.239–241; nānāyudhalakṣaṇaprakaraṇa, p.293–294, 303, 306–318) (compare P.K. Gode, 1947j, who mentions that the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at Poona possesses five MSS of the *Viracintāmaṇidhanurveda*; see also: B. Jawalia, 1983, Serial Nrs. 2794–96, R. Nambiyar, 1950, Serial Nr. 225, M. Vinayasagar and D.B. Khsirsagar, 1979a, Serial Nr. 1355, and the same, 1979b, Serial Nr. 1674: attributed to Vedavyāsa). See on a number of works on dhanurveda: D. Acharya (1999): 9–10; CC I, 267, III, 58.