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CATALOGUE
OF SANSKRIT AND PRAKRIT MANUSCRIPTS IN THE
CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR.
PART I.-BRAHMANICAL WORKS.
No. 1 sachet. Akshaya-tšitīgā. Attributed to Vyasa. SUBJECT.-Dharma. On the merits of a fast observed on the 3rd
of the bright fortnight of Vaisakha. The full name of the 'work is Akshaya-titlya-vrata-katha which is taken from Bhavishyottara Purana, but later writers have composed the story in their own way like Kshama-kalyana Pathaka, who wrote his own Akshayatritlya-vyakhyáoa. The observance of the fast on this day in expia. tion of an injury to a bullock is regarded very important,
OWNER.-Govindprasad Sastri of Jubbulpore.
No. 2. figniat. Agni-dvaya-samsarga. AUTHOR.--Narayana-bhatt. SUBJBCT.-Dharma - A book on ritual. Apparently the author.is
the same who wrote Omkāra-grantha. OWNER.--Lakshmap Atmaram Kale of Lonăr (Buldana district).
Nos. 3–5. agua. Agai-purāna. AUTHOR.-Vyasa. SUBJECT.-Puriņa. One of the 18 great Puranas by Vyasa. This
work is something like a Cyclopædia of Sanskrit literature, OWNER.-(3) Prahlad-bhat Lothe of Giroli (Akola district).
(1) Lakshmi-prasad of Jubbulpore. (5) The Bhonsali Rajas of Nagpur.
Nor-la the case of headquarters towns of districts, the name of the district has bou omitted
