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3411 Dharmasastra
293 क्रियापद्धति
Kriyāpaddhati No. 341
No. 1884-87 Size.-93 in. by 4g in. Extent.- 90 leaves ; 7 lines to a page ; 26 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanāgarī characters; handwriting
legible ; two rows, each of two lines in red ink on either border; benedictory phrase, marks of punctuation, topics and directions tinged with red pigment; last two folios slightly worm-eaten; it is incomplete.
A manual of rites to be performed from the day of death upto sapiņdikarana for the followers of mädhyandinišākha by Visvanātha, who, according to Kane, is probably
identical with Visvanātha, son of Gopala. Age.- Appears to be modern. Author.- Visvanātha. Begins.-- fol. 16.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः। गणेशं गिरं पद्मनाभं सुरेशं विभुविश्वनाथं विशालाक्षिमाया॥ विरंचिं विवस्वंतमन्यां नस्वा क्रियापद्धतिं विश्वनाथे करोमि ॥१॥ ततो यजुर्वेदांतर्गतमाध्यंदिनीयशाखोक्तं मरणसमयादारभ्य सपिंडीकरणांतं कर्म लिख्यते। आसन्ममरणं पित्रादिस्तीर्थे नीत्वा प्रायश्चित्तं
कारयेत् ॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 90b.
अथ पौष्णचरुहोमः॥ अभिधार्य ॥ पूषागा अक्षे तु नः पुषा रक्षतु सर्वतः॥ पूषावार्ज सनोतु नः स्वाहा ॥ इदं पूष्णे ॥ उभयचरुष शारिसष्टकृत् ॥ अनये
स्विष्टकृते स्वाह ॥ इदमये स्विष्टकृते ॥२॥ References.(1) Mss.- A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
__ I 1330%; II 26". Kane: Hist. Dh. I; p. 537 and p. 740.
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