Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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43 washing of the images of the Devi; ordinary mode of worshipping the same; adoration of the sun; adoration of Vishnu; adoration of Devi; repetition of the mystic mantra a stated number of times; adoration of the Visvedevas; daily sraddhas; characteristics of guests; rules for taking the midday meal; duties after the midday meal; articles to be selected or rejected as food; spirituous drinks defined ; rules for sleeping; society of women; periodical sraddhas; impurity of the person caused by birth or death in one's family; sati; funerals; persons fit to offer oblations to the manes; perpetual impurity of the body. The work is founded on the plan of Kamalakara's digest of the laws relating to the Sudras, entitled the Sudra-kamala kara, and traverses very nearly the same ground, but it professes to have been compiled from a work on the subject by Soma Misra. The MS. bears date Saka 1440, and is 356 years old. Beginning. End. 'balasitamsadhari, gaurivatojakhelantagamayajanitorasthalibhutavedyah | vibhranta yasya (vidyur )dyutikapilajatamandale . racayatyapipalo'sau dharmasila mahamatih | srisomamisramadaya prayatnacchudrapaddhatim || asaucam sarvakaryesu gtahe bhavati sarvada | danam pratigrahah svanam sarvantasya drtha bhavet || Colophon. ityapipa lakarita sudrapaddhatih samapta || visayah | tatradau sudradharmakathanam, mantradividhinisedhau, tato nityacaresu sudranam mutrapurisotsargavidhih saucavidhih, syacamanavidhih, dantadhavanam, pratahsnanam- snanavidhih, tarpanavidhih, tarpananettarakarmma-samanyadevatapuja, devikhanavidhih, samanyapuja, suryapuja, visnupuja, sivapuja, devipuja, japavidhih, vaisvadeva- vidhih| nityasraddham | atithikharupam, bhojanavidhih, taduttarakarmma, bhajya- bhajyanirnayah, madyakharupam, sayanavidhih, maithunavidhirityete proktah| tatastesa- meva karttavyasraddhe tatkalanirnayah, parvanadivisesasraddhasya prayogah | tatastesameva- sai|canirnayastatra ca janamasaucadivisesesu vyavasthavisesah, tato nirharanadya- numaranavyavastha, pravesanadih pretakriyadhikarinah, udakanarhah, yavajji- vah saucinah | G 2