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9701
Dharmaśāstra
899
Extent -9 leaves; 8 lines to a page; 19 letters to a line.
Description - Modern water-marked paper; Devanagari characterss
good; two lines in red ink on either border; marks of pune ctuation in red ink.
A short compilation from Prayogaratna, Nimayaşindhu, Nirnayadipa and Samskärakaustubha on (1) constructing an altar, worshipping of gods, etc., according to (a) Gurjaras and (b) Dāksinātyas, and (2) dismissing the gods and destroying the altar, etc., by a son of Dharanidhara, who calls himself Vyāvahārika. Aufrecht mentions only our Ms. in his Catalogus Catalogorum, ii, 966.
Age-Appears to be modern.
Author-Ason of Dharanidhara, called Vyavaharika. Begins - fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ अथ प्रयोगरत्नोको मंडपदेवताप्रतिष्ठाविधिः ॥ देशकालौ संकीयं करिष्य
माणादः कांगभूतां मंडपदेवतादि प्रतिष्टां करिष्य इति संकल्प्य etc. Buds - fol. 9a
ततस्तदंगले(खे?)न पुण्याहवाचनं कुर्यात् ॥ ततो वितानोपरि अपूपादीनां प्रक्षेपणादि यथाचारं कार्यम् ॥ इति श्रीमव्यावहारिकोपास्यभरणीधरसूनु. मंडपोद्वासनप्रयोगः॥३॥छ।
मण्डलदेवतास्थापनप्रयोग
Mandaladevatāsthāpana
prayoga
No. 970
353
1887-91
Size-8in. by43 in.
Bxtent - 18 leaves : 8 lines to a page; 29 letters to a line. Description - Modern water-marked paper; Devanāgari characters;
handwriting good.
A small treatise dealing with the construction of sarvatobhadra and the rites of devatāsthapana, anvādhāng, etc. For
