भोजनकुतूहल: प्रथम भाग (रघुनाथ नवहस्त - आहार-रसायन, पाकशाला-व्यवस्था व विरुद्धाहार)

gōtra and to the Karhade sect among the Mahraṭṭas. His
family surname was ‘Navahasta’ (corrupted in popular
tongue as Navatha and Navathye) as can be gathered from
the colophons in some of his works like इति ......
चातुर्मास्यप्रयोगो रघुनाथनवहस्तकृतः and नवहस्तरघुनाथभट्टविरचित-
प्रायश्चित्तप्रकरणं समाप्तम् । In his Prāyaścittakutūhala, Raghu-
nātha speaks of God Viṣṇu as his family deity:
अनेन प्रीयतां देवो भगवान् कमलापतिः ।
श्रीमदनन्तः पूर्वेषाम्माकं कुलदैवतम् ॥
Raghunātha’s teacher Anantadeva whose genealogy we
noticed above is believed to have lived between 1625 and
1675 A D. He was a versatile scholar and prolific writer
and was a descendant of the great Mahraṭṭa Saint Ekanātha.
His father Āpadeva was the famous author of the Mīmāṁ-
sānyāyaprakāśa.
Raghunātha was intimately associated with the
Mahraṭṭa Saint Rāmdas, the preceptor of Śivāji the Great.
He was for a long time put in charge of the temple of
Raghupati, built by the Saint at Chafol on the Man, a tribu-
tary of the river Kṛṣṇā
The author appears to have settled at Tanjore when
a Mahraṭṭa kingdom was established there in 1678 by Ekoji,
for in some of his Mahraṭṭi works like the Narakavarṇana
he speaks of Dīpāmbikā, Queen of Ekoji as his patroness
Besides the Bhojanakutūhala Raghunātha has written
several other works in Sanskrit and Mahraṭṭi. Among the
Sanskrit works may be mentioned the following: —

1. Sāhityakutūhala — a work on Citrakāvya
   mentioned in the Narakavarṇana of the
   author, but no MS is known.