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1008]
Dharmaśāstra
433
Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible. The Codex contains : (1) Mahārudravidhāna - A treatise dealing with the detailed worship of Rudra. Foll. 118; paper old and musty; (2) Jalasayotsarga - Foil. 1-40. and (3) Kundasamskāra - Foll. 40-50.
The Ms. of Mahārudra' contains the date of copying., Age-Samvat 1873.
Author - Anonymous.
Begins. - fol. la
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ।। महारुदस्य पदार्थानुक्रमः ॥ तत्र देहराज्यर्थ प्रायश्चित विष्णुपूजनपूर्वकं कर्त्तव्यं । संकल्पो वा । ततो गणेशांबिकयोः पूजनं ॥ तत्र ब्राह्मणद्वारा ऋग्वेदादिपारायणपाठाद्यंगकलापान्वित ............ सर्वत्र प्रयोगः।। etc.
Ends. - fol. 18a
__ सर्वे पूजामादाय पार्थिवात् इष्टकामद्यसिध्द्यथं पुनरा(ग)मनाय च ब्राह्मणां नमस्कारः इदं उपहारजातं आचार्याय तुभ्यमहं संप्रददे इति भाचार्याय उपहारदानं इति महारुद्रे इतिकर्तव्यता समाप्तः स. १८७३ चैत्रे शुक्ले धे
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महार्णव
Mahārņava No. 1008
A1881-82Size -111 in. by 5t in. Extent-343-2 = 341 leaves; 10 lines to a page; 38 letters to a.line. . Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
legible; two rows of one line and two to four lines in red ink on either border; benedictory phrases and marks of punctuation in red ink; paper old and musty; foll. 78 and 176 missing; fol. 93, repeated; foll. 167 and 168 are together.
A comprehensive work in 40 chapters on prāyaścittas for diseases and evil influences resulting from deeds performed in former birth (karmavipāka). The work, although ascribed to
Māndhāts, was really compiled by Viśveśvarabhatta, son of ...55
