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Dharmaśāstra
Navagrahamakhaśānti
101 Ho:685
1882-83 Size - 71 in. by 44 in. Bactent 25 leaves; 8 lines to a page; 21 lotters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
Jegible; two lines in black ink on either border; benedictory phrase, marks of punctuation together with verse - numbers and colophon are tinged with red pigment; paper old, worn out and musty; fol. 16 missing. .
A treatise in 241 anustubh verses, dealing with the ritual to be performed at the navagrahahoma, ascribed to.Vasistha. Aufrecht notes only one Ms. in his Catalogus Catalogorum
i,2800 Age-Samvat 1643. Author - Vasistha. Subjøet - Dharma. Begins — fol. la
ॐ श्रीगणेशाय नमः ।। सवित्राविग्रहाल सर्वान् प्रणम्य ऋषिसत्तमः। 'मसं नवाहं भूते वसिष्ठो सुनिपुंगवः ॥१ श्रया पृच्छमानस्तु रामेण विनयेन तु । बेदवेदांगशानेषु कुशलत्वं महामने ॥२ . किमर्थमेक्नं जातं कस्माद्राज्याशिवाशिः।
सुरासुरास्तथा यक्षा सर्वे वर्णा द्विजादिका ॥ ३ ॥ etc. Ends - fol. 250
माहोनोदयेदाई मंत्रहीनस्तु ऋत्विजः।
मायाक्षण्यः मास्ति शतमी रिपुः ॥ ४० प्रथा शहाणं कवचं वावणं भवेत एवं देवोपघातानां शातिमवति वारुणं ॥ २४॥ ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ ॥ कल्याणमस्तु॥ ॥