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Dharmasastra
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A manual for daily practices according to Gautama. sūtra. Cf. fol. 10“.
इति गौतमसूत्रे आह्निके प्रकरणं समाप्तं ॥ Our text is different from Ahnikasūtra of Gautama as __described in B. B. R.A. S. Cat. No. 651. Age.- Saka 1708. Author.- Gautama. Begins.- fol. 1.
श्रीमहागणाधिपतये नमः॥ ब्राह्म मुहर्ते उत्थाय स्वशिरसि सहस्रपत्रे कमले चिंततये द्विभुजं गुरुं ।। वराभयकर शांतं बद्धपद्मासनं शुचिं ॥ गुरुमूर्तये
नमः लं पृथिव्यात्मकं गंधसमर्पयामि ॥ etc. Ends.-fol. 104.
सुर्यादिभ्यो हुते पूर्व मग्न्यादिभिस्ततः परं । हुत्वा व्याहृतिभिः पश्चाद्भूतयज्ञस्तथैव च ॥५॥ उपस्थानं सकृत्कार्य सकृदेव गृहे बलिं।
दद्याद्वै वायसादिम्यो भूतेभ्यश्च बलीन्सकृत् ॥६॥ शके १७०८ पराभवसंवत्सरे चैत्रशुक्लपतिपदि वाक्पतिवारे कृष्णाजोतिषात्मजवैराजक्षेत्रस्थितत्र्यंबकदैवज्ञेनेदं लिखितं ॥ स्वार्थ परार्थ च ॥
No.
1883-84
माहिक
Ahnika
512 No. 151 Size.— 64 in. by 3in. Extent.— 63 leaves ; 7 lines to a page ; 22 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible; four lines in red ink on either border; all the four borders are coloured with yellow pigment; marks of punctuation and last colophon in red ink; paper old, worn out and musty.
The text is corrupt. The author Raghunāthabhatta (Samrat Sthapati) was the son of Madhavabhatta, grandson of Rāmeśvarabhatta, nephew of Nārāyaṇabhatta and younger brother of Visvanātha and Prabhākara. He also wrote Kalatattvavivecana (in 1620 A.D.).