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981
Dharmasāstra
Visnu, in 12 chapters. Oudh 1877,648
ii, iiia. B-Descriptive Catalogues :-I.O.Cat. Nos.
2435. (2) Printed Editions :- One edition printed in 1978.
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बृहस्पतिसंहिता
Běhaspatisa mhita No.948
1884-86 Size -7 in. by 3 in. Bxtent - 193 leaves; 5 lines to a page; 21 letters to a line. Description-Country paper; Devanagari characterss handwriting
legible; two irregular lines in black ink on either border benedictory phrase, marks of punctuation, topics and colo. phons tinged with red pigment; paper old and musty,
An exhanstive treatment of performing sacrifice and navagrahahoma with Vedic mantras; the colophon on fol. 196 - çfa बृहस्पतिसहितायां प्रतिष्ठापंचरात्रे यज्ञदीक्षाधिकार:. It is incomplete. Haraprasād Shāstri mentions in his Cat. of Asiatic Society of Bengal (No. 2638) a Brhaspatisamhita which appean tobe different from our work. See also Nos. 2636-7 in the same
Catalogue. Age-Appears to be old. Author - Brhaspati? Subject -Dharma. Begins - fol. 10 श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ भदौ वेदादि । अनिमाले ॥षेत्वा ।। मादी ।
शनोदेवा ॥ इति शांतिपाठ ॥ भावाहयामि देवेशं मोंकारं परमेश्वरं । त्रिमात्र विक्षरं दिव्यं त्रिमूर्ति परमेश्वरी ॥ *माईति मंत्रेण मंडले त्वं समाविश ॥ आवाहयेत्सर्वसु नंदनं च त्रैलोक्यरम्यं विदः सुनिम्मितं चरखारपादस्थितसुद्धमवणं विचित्रसिंहासनहेमसंयुतं ॥ etc.