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Dharmaśāstra
421
A manual of funeral rites ascribed to Yajurveda - Grhya sūtra. Aufrecht records only our Ms. under this name in his Catalogus Catalogorum, iii, 936.
Age — Appears to be old.
Author - Anonymous. Begins - fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ अथ जजुर्वेदगृह्यसूत्र लिष्यते ॥ अथ मरणकर्मपद्धति ॥ मन्त्र गंगादितीर्थेषु
अपक्रमिष्यजीवितस्य त्रैवर्णिकस्य नवयज्ञोपवीतवस्नमादिभिः॥ Ends - fol. 54a
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इति गृह्यसूत्रं संपूर्ण ॥ मिती संवत् १८५० भाद्रपदशुक्लापक्षे ४ चंद्रवासरे लिख्यतं मिश्रविद्यादत्तस्वात्मजउदैदत्तपठनार्थ सुभं भवतु मंगलं ददातु ।। श्रीलिप्यल्पै नगरमध्ये प्रतापसींघराज्ये
मलमासतत्त्व
Malamāsatattva
131 1895-98
No. 1001
Size-127 in. by 58 in.
Extent'-97 leaves; 8 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible; two pairs of lines in black ink enclosing a thick red line on either border; marks of punctuation in red ink; dator disfigured. The scribe of this work and of Āhnikācāratattva (No. 130/1895-98) is one and the same. The latter Ms. bears 1730. Hence, this copy also must have been written thereabout; paper old, worn out and musty,
One of the tattvas from Raghunandana's Smytitativa published at Serampore in 1834-35 A.D. For details, see
Kane: Hist. Dh. I, pp. 416-19. Age - Samvat 1730 (?).
