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Dharmasastra in the pañcakas (the five nakşatras from Dhanisthā to Revati) and Tripāda.
Burnell mentions two separate works of these names in
his Tanjore catalogue, p. 1490. •ge.-Appears to be old. Author. - Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 148.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः। अथ पंचकमरणे शांतिकक्रमः ॥ गरुडपुराणे
अदी कृत्वा धनिष्टार्द्धत्तं नक्षत्रपंचकं ।
रेवत्यंतं सदादूष्य न शुभं सर्वदा भवेत् ॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 20..
या लक्ष्मियं च मे दौष्टयं सर्वगात्रेशु संस्थितं । तत्सर्व नाशमायातु लक्ष्मीतुष्टी च. वय ॥ ब्रह्मविष्णुमहेशेंद्रवरुणप्रीतये ततः। माषमुद्यवव्रीहि प्रियंग्वादि प्रयच्छति ॥ इति त्रिपादशांतिः ॥
No.
1886-92
त्रिपिण्डीविधान
Tripiņdividhāna
- 197 No. 522 Size.-3 in. by 41 in... Extent.- 4 leaves ; 9 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper; Devanagari characters%3; handwriting
good ; two lines in red ink on either border ; benedictory phrase, marks of punctuation and the last colophon are tinged with red pigment; paper old, worn out, musty and worm-eaten; first folio slightly torn; fol. 1" contains a list of things required for the ceremony. :
A short treatise on the ceremony called tripindi or offering of three piņņas to a departed soul in order to release it from pretayoni. It is in the form of a dialogue between Krşņa and Garuda and is taken from Garuda. purana. This text is quoted in Kamalakara's KarmaviPakaratna; see Haraprasad Shastri's Cat. of Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. III, no. 2325,
