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CATALOGUE
OF
SANSKRIT AND PRAKRIT MANUSCRIPTS IN THE
CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR.
PART I.-BRAHMANICAL WORKS.
No. I
peqdiral.
Akshaya-tsitīyā.
Attributed to Vyäsa. SUBJECT.-Dharma. On the merits of a fast observed on the 3rd
of the bright fort night of Vaisakha. The full name of the work is Akshaya-tritiya-vrata-kathā which is taken from Bhavishyottara Purana, but later writers have composed the story in their own way like Ksbama-kalyāņa Pathaka, who wrote his own Akshayatritiya-vyakhyāva. The observance of the fast on this day in expiation of an injury to a bullock is regarded very important.
OWNER.-Govindprasad Sastri of Jubbulpore.
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No. 2. THAT. Agni.dvaya-samsarga. AUTHOR.-Nārāyana-bhattı. SUBJECT.-Dharma.-A book on ritual. Apparently the author is
the same who wrote Omkāra-grantha. OWNER.-Lakshman Atmárām Kale of Lonăr (Buldānă district).
Nos. 3—5. fagar. Agni-purāņa. AUTHOR-Vyāsa. SUBJECT.-Purāņa. One of the 18 great Pura nas by Vyäsa. This
work is something like a Cyclopædia of Sanskrit literature. OWNER.-(3) Prahlad-bbat Lothe of Giroli (Akola district).
(4) Lakshmi-prasad of Jubbulpore. (5) The Bhonsalā Rājās of Nagpur.
NOTE.-Ia the cast of headquarters towns of districts, the name of the district has been omitted,
