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Dharmasastra
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Extent -217 leaves; 10 fines to a page: 37 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
good; two or three lines in black ink on each border; benedic toryl phrases, marks of punctuation, topics and colophons tinged with red pigment; paper old, worn out, musty and worm-eaten; foll. 59 and 60 are together; foll. 109-10, 178-81,
212-13 are missing; incomplete. ii. A work in 4 chapters called Sämänya-Tithinirnaya Srāddha,
Dravyafuddhi and Asauca. The author Allāšanātha Süri was the son of Siddhalaksmana and wrote his work at the direction of prince Süryasena who ruled at Ekacakrapura. He gives the geneology of his patron and an account of himself in the introductory portion called granthavatāra. There seents to be some confusion with regard to the name of the author. He is sometimes called Allādanātha Sūri and at other times
Gopinarayana. Age - Appears to be old. Author - Allādanātha Sūri or Gopinārāyaṇa.is Subject - Dharma.
Begins -fol. 10
ॐ नमो श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ ॥ योगेश्वर्यै नमः॥ कारणमे जगता कारणमास्येन वारणं विपदा । किमपि महो महनीयं प्रस्तावारण वंदे १॥ भापयामि नमकिनावनामावितप्रियुगको सुमंगला
इष्टदां सततमिष्टदेवता मंत्रवत्सककमंत्रमातरं ।। २ । औपाधिकः स्फुरति यत्र कलादिभेदस्तद् ब्रह्मतत्वमपि बस्व न वेद वेदः
सर्गस्थितिप्रलयहेतुमहत्तु वैकं कालस्य रूपमहमन्वहमानमामि ॥३॥ etc. Bnds. - fol. 2260
आवश्यकविवाहादि मंगलं कुर्यादिति मंगलं ॥ ॥ बुधानामुपकाराय कालव्यामूढवेनसां ।
गोपीनारायणेनेदं निर्मितं निर्णयामृतं ॥ इति श्रीसूर्यसेनमहीमहेंद्रविरचितनिर्णयामृते भाशौचप्रकरणं संपूर्ण ॥" श्रीसूर्यसेनभूभृद्विमलयशः क्षीरसागरादुदिते । इति निर्णयालेस्मिनाशी