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138
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1377-78 A. D.),
severywhere, bear the date Sarin. 1434 ( foll. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15 and 17 are also in the same hand. No complete copy of this work has as yet been discovered. Another Ms. (No. 228/1886-92) in our library is also a fragment; No. 121 / 1884 = 86 is also incomplete. The Ms. described by Haraprasāda Shāstri (see below ) is also a fragment. According to him it is a rare and authoritative work. He gives the list of authorities quoted or mentioned in the work. The chief topics dealt with are srāddha, dāna, Sawatiy upākarma, etc. The Ms. was copied by Jhyo ( ? ) Kurma for his sons at Dāvilana. He belonged to Udicyajñāti.
Age:
-Sarvat 1434.
Author — Sridharācārya, son of Prabhākaranāyaka.
Subject – Dharma.
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Dharmasastra
तं दत्तं तस्य तीर्थ कर्ल न हि । या पुनर्धनलोभेन गंगातोयेषु निक्षपेत् । परो वाप्यथवा बंधुस्तस्य जन्म निरर्थकं ॥
इति श्रीप्रभाकर नायकसुतश्रीधराचार्यविरचितायां नित्यकर्म्मपद्धतौ तीर्थश्राद्धविधिः समाप्तः । छ ॥ श्री ॥ यांदृशं पुस्तकं etc.
References -
स्वस्ति संवत् १४३४ वर्षे शाके १२८८ प्रवर्त्तमाने चैत्रवदि चतुईशयो तिथौ शनिदिने वर्त्तमाननक्षत्रयोगकरणपुर्वगुणवशिष्टायां पुण्यतिथौड डाविलाणाप्रामवास्तव्य उदीचज्ञातीय... कूम्र्मेकसुतानायोग्य तदा धन्यः कोफि पठति तस्य अन्यस्य विश्वोपकारार्थं प्रभाकरनायकसुत श्रीधराचार्य कृत पद्धति लिखिता । भग्नपृष्टिकटि etc.
Mss. - A - Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :i, 295; ii, 644.
Kane : Hist. Dh. I, pp. 572 and 752.
B-Descriptive Catalogues :- Haraprasada Shāstri's Cat. of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. III, No. 2234.
