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( 15 ) “According to the Mahābhārata 9. 37, 14f. there is a sacred place Garga-srotas, “Garga’s stream”, on the Sarasvatī, named after the venerable ascetic Garga, who was famous on account of his knowledge of time”, “and the movements of the celestial bodies”. “To the same (later) period (of Indian astronomy) belongs also the Gārgī-saṃhitā of Garga who was always regarded as a highly distinguished authority on Astronomy ; the Vṛddha-Gārga-saṃhitā, which exists, dealt, it is true, chiefly with astrology but it also contained (discussions on) Astronomy⁴⁸ᵃ.” The Bṛhat-saṃhitā⁴⁸ᵇ of Varāhamihira mentions Garga, Maya, Viśvakarman, Vasiṣṭha and Nagnajit, as also, Bhāskara and Manu. Works of Bhāskara and Gaṇapati are also quoted from, in the Vāstu-sāraṇī⁴⁹, a modern compilation ; these may be authentic Śilpaśāstrakāras whose names are known from other sources, and whose works might be preserved. Bhagavān Gaṇapati is mentioned, among later writers only by Madhusūdana Sarasvatī in his Prasthānabheda⁵⁰, as a master of dramaturgy, Bharataśāstram :— 48a. M. Winternitz : Geschichte III. pp. 556-57. Bracketed portions in the above translation are ours. 48b. Bṛhat-saṃhitā. Edited by Kern. Bibliotheca Indica, Asiatic Soc. Bengal ; also, edited by Mm. Sudhākara Dvivedin with Bhaṭṭotpala’s com- mentary, Vizianagram Skt. Series, Benares. 49. P. K. Acharya : Op. cit. Appendix I. sub-voce. Vāstu-sāraṇī by Matīprasāda Pāṇḍe. Benares, 1901. Bhāskara is quoted early, in Varāhamihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā. (Ed. Kern) Ch. 58, 52. 50. These surprisingly informative and new texts are not to be found in the ordinary edition of the Prasthānabheda by Śrī Madhusudana Sarasvatī e. g. from Śrī Vāṇīvilās Press, Śrīraṅgam, 1912. Nor are they to be found in the closely analogous passage in Śrī Madhusūdana’s learned commentary to the ŚIVA-MAHIMNA-STAVA, edited by Panśīkar Lakṣaṇa Vāsudeva, Nirṇayasāgar Press, Bombay under the most famous and oft-quoted verse :—