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Dharmaśāstra
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Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible; two lines in black ink on either border; paper old and musty.
A treatise on śrāddha, being tha 6th pariţişta of the Sukla Yajurveda. It is in 9 sections or Kand ikās and hence it is called Navakandika. It is followed by 9 slokas on sraddha
ceremonies. Age-Appears to be old. . . ......... .. । Author - Katyayana.
. ) Subject -Dharma.
Begins - fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ अपरपक्षे श्राद्धं कुर्वीते ॥ ऊर्ध्व वा चतुर्था यदहः संप्रयेत वबहाशमान मंध्य पूर्वधुर्वा स्नातकानेके यतीन्गृहस्थसाधून्वा श्रोत्रियान् वृद्धाननवद्यान.. न प्रतिगृह्णीयात् ।। etc.
Ends - fol. 40
परिचारका एकादश्यां धनधान्यं हिरण्यं द्वादश्यां पुवपशून्शयं हिरण्यं कुप्यं ज्ञातिश्रेष्टयं तु त्रयोदश्यां युवानस्तत्र नियंते शरू इयाममावा स्थायां सर्वमित्यमावास्यायां सर्वमिति ॥
इति नवकंडिका समाप्तः॥ Then follows the pinda-offering to the dead.
Referenees -(1) Mss. -A - Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
i,6654; ii, 159a and 23003; iii, 138a
Kane: Hist. Dh. I, p. 643. ... B - Descriptive Catalogues :- Weber's Cat. of
Berlin Mss., p. 62, No. 252. Mitra's Cat. of Bikaner Mss., p. 405, No. 869. B.B.R. A.S.Cat. No.517.
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(2) Printed Editions :- Published with several conti
mentaries at Banaras and the Gujarati Printing Press, Bombay. .
