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448
Dharmaśāstra
[1025
Extent - 6 leaves; 9 lines to a page; 30 letters to a line. Description-Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting
good; two rows, each of one line and two lines in red ink on either border; benedictory phrase, title, marks of punctuation and the last colophon are in red ink; corrections done with white chalk; paper old and musty.
A small manual for performing the annual śrāddha of
one's mother. Age - Appears to be old. Author - Anonymous. Begins - fol. 10
___ ॐ ॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ अथ मात्रिकैश्राद्ध लिख्यते ॥ तत्र पूर्वदिने कृतनियमः । श्राद्ध दिने प्रातर्वस्त्रयुगेन कृतस्नानः ।। पंचगव्योपनज्वलदंगारभ्रमण
गौरमृत्तिकाच्छादनैः ॥ etc. Ends -- fol. 66
___ एकोद्दिष्टश्राद्धमहमकरिष्ये स्वधा इत्येवमादि उत्सर्गवाक्य ॥ इत्येको. द्दिष्टप्रयोगः ॥ अथ स्वीकृ( ? )र्तृकश्राद्धप्रयोग ॥ स्नाता शुक्लवस्त्र युगमध्याह्वे सुसमहार्सपंचगव्योपलेपितं सलिः ॥ इति श्राद्धसंपूर्ण
मातृस्थापनप्रयोग
Mātrsthāpanaprayoga
263 No. 1026
1886-92 Size-91 in. by 41 in. Extent -1 leave, 12 lines to a page1.34 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; Devanāgari characters; handwriting
bad; benedictory phrase, title and the last colophon tinged with red pigment; one line in black ink on either border, paper very old, much worn out, musty and repaired.
A small treatise on the worship of 16 mātrs at the time
of performing any religious ceremony. Age - Appears to be old. Author - Anonymous.