Aṣṭayāma-bhāvanā

What the controlled programme establishes

In Bhuvaneśvaranātha Miśra “Mādhava”, Rāmabhakti-sāhitya meṃ Madhura Upāsanā (Bihar Rāṣṭrabhāṣā Pariṣad, Patna, 1957), scan 307 / printed page 280 explicitly begins अष्टयाम-भावना after the final two Viraha-jvara groups. The quotation window continues across the page boundary and ends on scan 308 / printed page 281 before explicit रूप-सुषमा.

Direct image inspection establishes 13 + 12 = 25 visually separated two-line groups. These are editorial observations used only to describe the source boundary. They are not canonical numbers, not a verified complete-work extent, and not prepared text units. Existing translated paragraph blocks are heading locators only and do not replace source-image topology.

Checked image identity

• Scan 307 / printed page 280 · 13 visual groups in the bounded window
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• Scan 308 / printed page 281 · 12 visual groups in the bounded window
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Scan 307 matches the checksum already controlled for scripture 51. The shared page preserves the exact boundary while scripture 51 and scripture 52 remain separate registry identities.

Attribution and role boundary

The secondary study's detailed contents groups Viraha-jvara, Aṣṭayāma-bhāvanā, and Rūpa-suvasā under Lavakuśa Śaraṇa “Līlābihārī”. This preserves the programme attribution but is not a primary title leaf or author statement.

The bounded quotation window repeatedly contains Yugalānanya signature forms and repeated or near-repeated devotional and name vocabulary. Those forms must remain where the images place them if research drafts are ever authorized; they must not be deduplicated or used alone to prove authorship. The controlled evidence does not decide whether Lavakuśa Śaraṇa was author, compiler, collector, publisher, transmitter, or lineage successor.

Secure next boundary and title discrepancy

The source image visibly prints रूप-सुषमा as the next heading. The next registry identity is Rūpa-suvasā, Devanagari रूप-सुवसा. This unresolved form difference does not weaken the visual endpoint of the present window, but it prevents the boundary from independently reconciling scripture 53's exact title or identity.

Bounded search results

Three public exact-title and attribution queries surfaced two unrelated pages and 0 credible exact candidates. Ten Internet Archive title, creator, and title-plus-author query families returned 0 records. Saved catalogues and the controlled local corpus produced no independent exact witness.

A separately controlled Sītārāma Mānasī Pūjā Aṣṭayāma Bhāvanā by Rāmarasaraṅgamaṇi was rejected: it has a different exact title, author, witness, topology, and registry identity. Generic aṣṭayāma vocabulary is not identity evidence, and search absence does not prove loss.

Precise gaps

• No independent witness securely assigns the bounded programme quotation window to the separately catalogued Aṣṭayāma-bhāvanā attributed to Lavakuśa Śaraṇa “Līlābihārī”.
• No primary title leaf or author statement resolves author, compiler, collector, publisher, transmitter, or lineage-successor roles.
• Repeated Yugalānanya signature forms inside the window do not by themselves establish authorship of the complete separately catalogued work.
• No exact-work primary opening, ending, colophon, imprint, pagination, continuity, or complete ordered witness is controlled.
• Canonical unit type, count, numbering, order, divisions, repetition pattern, and total extent are unknown.
• It is unverified whether every one of the 25 visually observed groups belongs to the exact registry identity.
• The controlled next heading रूप-सुषमा differs from registry scripture 53 Rūpa-suvasā / रूप-सुवसा; the visible heading closes this window but does not reconcile the next identity.
• No original text, English translation, textual note, reader, unit route, print view, PDF, facsimile, binary asset, or download is released.