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Dharmasastra
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कोकिलावत
Kokilāvrata
294 No. 337
No. A1881-82 Size.-81 in. by4g in. Extent.— 11 leaves ; 9 lines to a page ; 24 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting
legible%3; paper old, worn out, musty and soiled.
A vrata to be observed on the full moon day of Aşādha for establishing conjugal love. A dialogue between Sri Krsna and Yudhisthira. It forms part of Bhavi
syottara Purāņa. Age.- Appears to be old. Author.- Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 1.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥
युधिष्ठिर उवाच॥ स्वभ" सह संबंधे महान हो यथा भवेत् कुळस्त्रीणां तदाचक्ष्व व्रतं मम जगद्गुरौ ॥१॥
श्रीकृष्णौवाच ॥ यमुनायास्तटे रम्ये मथुरायां शुभां ततः ।
तस्या शत्रुघ्ननामाभूत् राजा राघवनंदनः॥२॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 11.
पंचरत्नानि पृष्टिना सुवर्ण चूत्तमाश्रितं । एवं स्वं च तथा पूज्या एकभक्तं शनैः शनैः॥२६॥ आदित्यभास्कर रवे भानो सूर्यदिवाकरः।
प्रभाकर नमस्तुभ्यं गृहाणायं नमोस्तु ते ॥२७॥ इति श्रीभविष्योत्तरपुराणे कोकिळावतोद्यापनं समातं ॥ ॥७॥
श्रीरस्तु ॥ कोकिळाव्रत ॥ . . References :
(1) Mss.- A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :. .. 129b; II 256; III 28b.
....B-Descriptive Catalogues:Weber's Cat. of Berlin Mss. pp. 341, No. 1205. (This recension is slightly different from ours.)
