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Dharmaśāstra
435
Age.- Appears to be old. Author.- Raghunan dana Bhattācārya. Begins.- fol. 16.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ इति श्रीमहोपाध्यायश्रीरघुनंदनभट्टाचार्यविरचितं दुर्गाफ( ? )जातत्त्वं समाप्तं ॥ अथैकादशी ।। सा च परयुता प्राधा युग्मात् भाग्नेये
गृहस्थो ब्रह्मचारी च आहिताभिस्तथैव च ।
Varga ja Toota 11 9 11 etc. Ends.- fol. 63o.
संवत्सरफलं तत्र etc. upto तिथितत्वं समाप्तम् as in No. 496. References.- See No. 496.
No. 1887-91.
तिथिनिर्णय
Tithinirņaya
258 No. 498 Size.- 11 in. by 45 in. Extent.- 23 leaves; 11 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible: two lines in black ink on either border; marks of punctuation and topics tinged with red pigment; paper very old, worn out, with writing disfigured, and musty ; foll. 1-11, 27, 33 missing ; a fragment.
A work on fixing the dates for sacred ceremonies by Misra Devadāsa, son of Nāmdeva and grandson of Arjuna of the Gautama gotra and patronised by some Malwa ruler. He mentions Kalpataru, Karka, Maharnava, Mitākṣarā, Smytisära, Visvādarśa, Lalla, Bhimaparākrama, Sumantu. He is the author of Devadāsaprakāśa or Sad granthacüdāmani. It is probably this latter work which is referred to as Devadasiya in Nirnayāmīta and Vidhānapārijāta. According to Kane (Hist. Dh. I, p. 703), he flourished between 1250 and 1500 A.D. Aufrecht mentions only our ms. in his Catalogus Catalogorum,
iii, 50. Age.- Appears to be very old. Author.- Devadāsa miéra.
