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Dharmaśāstra
1889
Extent-20 leaves%3; 11 lines to a page; 31 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible; two lines in red ink on either border; benedictory phrase, topics and colophons are tinged with red pigment; paper very old, much worn out and musty.
An exposition of gotras and pravaras. It is also called Gotrapravaranirnaya. The author, Visvanāthadeva or Visveśvara was the son of Sambhudeva and younger brother of Ramadeva. The work was finished at Banares in Saka 1506.
Age - Śaka 1671. Author - Visvanāthadeva. Subject - Dharma. Begins -- fol. 18
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ ॐ धमश्रीरामजानकीजानये नमो ब्रह्मणे नमो महेशाय नमो गणपतये नम आपस्तंबाश्वलायनबौधायनकात्यायनेभ्यः ॥भयातो यशश्राद्धमहादानपरिजयनाघुपयुक्तं गोत्रप्रवरनिर्णयं व्याख्यास्यामः ॥ तदेतदवाक्षर्ण भवत्या ऋषे
वृणीतं etc. Ends - fol. 196
देकप्रदरोच्चारणमनंतरं परिगृहीन् प्रवरोचारणमिति कात्यायनाश्वलायनादयः॥
इति श्रीमछंभुदेवतनयरामदेवानुजविश्वनाथदेवविरचिते प्रवरनिर्णयः समाप्तः ॥ ॥शके १६७१ ॥ प्रमाथिनामसंवत्सरे उदगयणे वैशाखकृष्ण २ धार तदीने पुस्तकं समाप्त स्वार्थ परमार्थ च ॥ शुभं भवतु॥राम ॥ पितारामचंद्राय Then follows same stray portion.
References - Mss - A - Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
i, 159a; ii, 320.
Kane: Hist. Dh. I, p. 542. B - Descriptive Catalogues :- 1. O. Cat. No. 1782.
