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After he was fifty-five years old, he studied the Muntra Sastra, or fonnula of various prayers to Gods and Goddesses, and about this time he wrote a commentary on the Supta Sapti, or Chundi Pat, which is a chapter of the Marcandaya Purana. He died at Benares in the sixty-second year of his age, and it is supposed that severe disappointments in a great measure hastened his dissolution. The foregoing account of Nagogi Bhatt is taken from traditional records, preserved in the college of Nadya.