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Description
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Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting legible; two lines in red ink on each border; paper old and musty.
Dharmasastra
Age - Appears to be old.
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Author - Yama.
Begins - - fol. 16
This recension differs from the recension of No. 27 (xiv) / 1866-68. It agrees with the printed text of Brhad - Yamasmrti (in the Smrtinām Samuccayah, Anandāśrama Series No. 48, pp. 99-107) upto 3rd chapter and part of the 4th chapter. The printed text is a larger recension and is divided into 5 chapters; but the text of our Ms. has consecutive numbering of verses and no division into chapters. It has 102 verses.
Ends - fol. 50
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥
अथातो यमधर्मस्य प्रायश्चित्तं व्याख्यास्यामः ॥ चतुर्णामपि वर्णानां धर्मशास्त्रं प्रवर्तते ॥ १ ॥ ब्राह्मणस्तु शुना दष्टो जंबुकेन वृकेण वा । उदिते ग्रहनक्षत्रे दृष्ट्वा सद्यः शुचिर्भवेत् ॥ २ ॥ etc.
469
इदं शास्त्रं सुहृतिनामयमेन च महर्षिणा । शतमेकं हि श्लोकानां प्रमाणं धर्मसंमिति ॥ १ ॥ ख्यातमेत(द) द्विजश्रेष्ठ वर्णानां हितकाम्यया । इदं शास्त्रमधीयानाः श्रद्धाभक्तिसमन्विताः ॥ १०२ ॥ इति यमप्रणीता स्मृतिधर्मशास्त्र समाप्तं ॥
॥ श्री ॥
यमस्मृति
No. 1052
. Size - 12 in. by 42 in.
Extent - 5 leaves ; 10 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line.
Yamasmṛti
401 1891-95
Description Country paper; Devanagari characters; handwriting legible; foll. 1-3 have two lines in red ink on either border ; benedictory phrase, verse-numbers and colophons tinged with red vigment.