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Dharmaśāstra
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A treatise dealing with Ursot sarga (letting loose a bull) for the sake of obtaining some desire, meant for the followers of the schools of Asvalāyana, Taittirīya and Kātyāyana. It mentions Hemādri. Cf. another work of this name by Nārāyaṇabhatta described in Harprasad Shāstri's Cat. of Mss. in Asiatic Society of Bengal Vols. I
and II, No.4093; also Nos.:1698-99. .Age.- Saka 1717. Author.- Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 10.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः।
श्रीलक्ष्मीनृसिंहाय नमः॥ अथ काभ्यवृषोत्सर्गप्रयोगः समूलो लिख्यते ॥ स च कार्तिक्या पौर्णिमास्यां वृषोत्सर्गविधिभविष्ये ॥
कार्तिक्यां तु वृषोत्सर्गो विवाहः शुभलक्षणः etc. Ends.-fol. 13b.
इति वृषवस्सतरीष्वनेकस्यापि उपादानावास्यांगीकारात् । इति कातीयवृषोत्सर्गः॥ यावंति तस्य रोमाणि शरीरे संति संख्यया।
तावद्युगसहस्राणि स्वर्ग वसति तत्प्रदः॥ इति काम्यवृषोत्सर्गः समासतः आश्वलायनतैत्तिरीयकातीयानां प्रयोग: समाप्तः॥ श्री शके १७१७ राक्षसनाम संवत्सरे कार्तिकशुक्लनवम्यां पुण्यनगरे: संगमेश्वरकरज्योतिर्विदुपनायकभैरवदैवज्ञास्मजरघुनाथेन लिखितोस्ति ॥ शुभमस्तु ॥ Then follow some verses on muhurtas.
कायस्थधर्मदीप
Kāyasthadharmadīpa
342
No. 244
No.
1887-91
Size.-10g in. by 41 in. Extent.-34 leaves; 10 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description.- Modern water-marked paper; Devanāgari charac
ters; handwriting legible ; no marks of punctuation ; paper musty ; foll. 30-33 missing.
A manual of rules of conduct for the Kayasthas by Visvesvarabhatta, alias Gāgābhatta, the author of numerous treatises on Dharmaśāstra (See Kane: Hist. Dh. I, p.742) and other sciences, who was the son of Dinakara
