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9571
Dharnašāstra
382
A small treatise dealing with the ritual of performing brahmayajña ( study of sacred works) and tarpaņa of devas,
rsis and pitrs. . . Age - Śaka 1734. Author - Anonymous. Begins - fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ ... अथ माध्याह्नसंध्या कृत्वा । देशकालौ संकीयं ॥ पुण्यतिथी श्रीसविता सूर्यनारायणप्रीत्यर्थ विभ्राट्पुरुषसूकसिवसंकल्पमंडलबाह्मणैः सूर्योपस्थानमहं
करिष्ये ॥ etc. Ends - fol. 7a
___ अनेन यथाज्ञानेन देवऋषी मनुष्यपितृतर्पणाष्येन कम्म॑णा परमेश्वरवासुदेवः प्रीयतां न मम ॥ यस्य तं ॥ ब्रह्मयज्ञतर्पण समाप्त ॥ ॥शके १७३४ गिरानाम संवत्सरे ज्येष्ट व. भौमे हस्ताक्षर पाठकपंचाननेत्युपनामकसदाशिवमहात्मज मोरभवेन मारमपठनायें लिखितं ॥
ब्रह्माण्डदान
Brahmāņdadāna No.957
252
1886-92 • Size.-8 in. by 38 in.
Extent - 3 leaves; 11 lines to a page; 31 letters to a line. Description - Country paper: Devanāgari characters, handwriting
legible; two lines in black ink on either border; paper old and musty; benedictory phrase, topics and the last colophon are tinged with red pigment.
A small treatise on making a gift of brahmānda (Universe) represented by gold figures, tila, etc, as an expiation of sins. It is the third mahādāna described in detail by Hemādri in his Caturvargacintamani-Danakhanda, pp. 232-245 (Bibr
liotheca Indica Edn., Calcutta, 1873 ). Age - Appears to be old. Author - Anonymous.
mons.
