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Dharmasastra
[382 गोत्रप्रवरनिर्णय
Gotrapravaranirņaya
174 No. 382 Size.-98 in. by 4g in. Extent. - 23 leaves ; 10 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper; Devanagari characters%3; handwriting
legible; two lines in black ink on either border ; paper old and musty.
A short treatise on gotras and pravaras by Visvanātha. deva, son of Sambhudeva and younger brother of Rāma. deva. In the last verse, the work is also named as Rāmadevaprasāda. Our author also composed Kundamandapakaumudi. According to Kane he composed the work in
1584 A.D. Age.-Saka 1651. Author.- Viśyanāthadeva. Begins.- fol. 1.
श्रीगणपतये नमः॥ उनमः श्रीरामजानकीजानये नमो ब्रह्मणे नमो महेशाय नमो गणपतये नम आपस्तंवाश्वलायनबौधायनकात्यायनेभ्यः। अथातो यज्ञश्राद्धमहा
दानपरिणयनाथुपयुक्तं गोत्रप्रवरनिर्णयं आख्यास्यामः । etc. Ends.- fol. 26.
गोत्रायविचित्रपुष्परचितस्तश्ज्ञानयागादिभि
युक्तोनेकफलैमया परमया भक्त्योपहारोपितः। श्रीरामांहिसरोरुहेति निखिलाभीष्टप्रदे सर्वदा तेन श्री जनकात्मजापतिरयं रामः सदा प्रीयतां ॥४॥
इंदुवाणनृपे १६५१ शाकेवत्सरे रौद्रसंज्ञके फाल्गुनासितभूतायां बुधैश्रवणभेदि वा ॥१॥ रामदेवप्रसादाख्यो गोत्रप्रवरनिर्णयः काशीस्थस्यामभट्टो–कृष्णेन लिखितो मुदा ॥२॥
विश्वनाथनिर्मितिः॥ References.(1) Mss.-A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
____ I 159b; II 32b. Kane : Hist. Dh. I, pp. 541-2.
B-Descriptive Catalogues : I.O. Cat. No. 1782.
