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colophon tinged with red pigment; paper old, worn out and musty. The codex contains one folio which is marked as three, contains mantras and is not a part of work.
A manual for the worship of the planet Bhauma or Mangala. Weber mentions in his Berlin Cat. ( pp. 352-353) some works on Bhaumapūjā. but they are different from our Ms. Aufrecht mentions only our Ms. in his Catalogus Catalogorum, i, 418b.
Age - Śaka 1778.
Author
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Anonymous.
Begins. - - fol. 16
Dharmasastra
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥
भौमपूजाविधिर्लिख्यते ॥ ब्राह्मे मुहूर्त्ते चोत्थाय प्रामाद्वहिर्निर्ऋतिर्विशं सोदकपाणिर्गत्वा तृणास्तृतभूमौ मलौत्सगं कुर्यात् ॥
Bnds. - fol. 220
गृहीतलिंगोत्थाय गृहीतजलमृत्तिका । पायुलिंगकरांत्रिणां मृज्जलैः शुद्धिमाचरेत् ॥ etc.
प्रतिगृहामि अनेन वायनदानेन श्रीभौमः प्रीयतां न मम एतानि अत्र गंधपुष्पधूपदीपनैवेद्य फलतांबूल नैवेद्य दक्षिणाकृतेन षोडशोपचारश्रुतिस्मृत्युक पुजनेन श्रीभौमः प्रीयतां न मम ॥ तत्सद्ब्रह्मार्पणमस्तु ॥ इति भौमपूजा
समाप्तः ॥ ॥
Then follows भौमयंत्रकारिका
fol. 230 हे पुस्तक वासूदेव वीश्वनाथगणपूलेन लिखीतं परोपकारार्थं शके १७७८ संवत् अश्विन शुद्ध १३
मण्डप पूजापद्धति
No. 968
Size - 8k in by 4k in.
Extent 32 leaves; 9 lines to a page; 26 letters to a line.
Description
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Mandapapūjāpaddhati
391
1891-95
Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting legible; two lines in black ink on either border; benedictory phrase, topics, names of authorities quoted and the last colo
