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Dharmasastra
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A treatise similar in import to No. 234/1879-80 meant
for the followers of Madhyamdini säkha. Age-Sam. 1817. Author - Anonymous. Subject - Dharma. Begins. - fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ अथ नीलोत्सर्ग लिख्यते ॥ प्रथमं नित्यस्नानं । ततो मातृकापूजामाभ्योदयिकादं कृत्वा भवेत्यादिप्रयोगः ॥ अप्सव्यं ॥ ममुकगोत्राणां पितपित्ता
महप्रतितामहान ... वरुणाचार्चनमहं करिष्ये । etc. Ends - fol. 24a
अद्य पूर्वोचरित. तिथौ गोत्रस्य भस्मपितः भमुकामुकशर्मणः तथा च गोत्राणां पि. नास. नां तथा च अन्येषां पूर्वजामा उद्धरणार्थ निलपोत्सर्ग. कर्मणो विधेर्यन्यून स्तु।
इति माध्यदिनीयशाखायां नीलोत्सर्ग समाप्तः ॥ सवत् १८१७ मिति मागशीर्ष वदि १. भृगवासरे लिखितं गुल धरतत्पुत्रश्रीवत्सेण लिखित
बालोद्वाहपद्धति
Nilodvāhapaddhati
124 No. 759
1884-86 Size -94 in, by 41 in. Extent - 20 leaves; 10 lines to a pege; 35 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; braukt weining
good; two rows, each of one line and three lines in red ink on either border; paper old and musty.
A treatise for performing the ceremony of letting toda bull in connection with the funeral rites of a parent, etc. Our work very much resembles the text of I.O.Cat. No. 1775. which however is a small work. The largeness in the present Ms. is due to 108 verses of tarpana and pindadāna from Madhya (Matsya) purāna. Weber's Cat. (see below) registers 3 Mss., of which No. 1229 is similar to our Ms.