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अन्त्येष्टिपद्धति
No. 34
Age. Appears to be
Author. Kesava.
Begins. fol. 1b.
Dharmasastra
Size. 9 in. by 3 in.
Extent. 16 leaves; 14 lines to a page; 48 letters to a line. Description. Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting legible: two lines in black ink on either border; topics, etc. tinged with red pigment on foll. 1-4a; corrections made with yellow pigment; notes on margins; paper very old, worn out and musty; writing has almost faded out on the last folio.
very
Ends. fol. 16b.
Antyeṣṭipaddhati
130 1886-92
No.
A work on funeral rites by Kesava, born in the family of Laugākṣi, son of Anantabhaṭṭa of Punyastambha (Puntambe on the Godavari). According to Dr. Kane he is later than 1450. A. D.
old.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥
aftsinfas aftąd a: adfafu: astonfurgerefägarföniwifefa: bara: 'प्रासूत सदाशिवांघिकमळद्वंद्वैकनिष्टं परं भट्टानं तमहं नमामि पितरं सांबं कृपांभोनिधिं ॥ १ ॥ नानानिबंधमालोच्य पुण्यस्तंभपुरस्थितः ।
यं
अंत्येष्टिपद्धतिं भट्टकेशवः प्राह निर्मलां ॥ २ ॥ etc.
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The portion being illegible cannot be copied.
References.
(1) Mss.-A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :I 19b; II 4a.
Kane Hist. Dh. I p. 509.