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Dharmaśāstra
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अनन्तपूजाविधि
Anantapūjāvidhi
_301 (i)
No. 26
No.
A 1881-82
Size.—6 in. by 4 in. Extent.--1-25b leaves : 9 lines to a page ; 19 letters to a line. Description.- Modern water-marked paper; Devanagari characters;
handwriting good ; paper is musty on edges. It contains another tract named Naștadorakavidhāna. . A manual for worship of Visnu, to avoid misfortunes%3; on the 14th day of the first half of the month of Bhādrapada. There are several recensions of this vrata and pūjā,
references to which are given below. Age.- Appears to be modern. Author.- Anonymous. Begins.- fol. 1b.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ अथ अनंतपूजनं ॥ तत्र यमुनापूजन ।
हृषिकेश नमस्तुभ्यं यमुनापूजनं शुभं। सर्वव्रतसमारम्भ यमुनां च प्रपूजयेत् ॥ व्रतादौ कि कृतं तत्र व्रती कुर्याच्च भक्तितः।
कलशं नववस्त्रं च गंधपुष्पाक्षतानि च ॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 25b.
यांतु देवगणाः सर्वे पूजा० अम्यारमि० यस्य स्मृत्या च० अनेन यस्कृतेन कर्मणा श्रीमदनंतः प्रीयतां न मम प्रीतो भवतु ॥ इति श्रीमदनंतपूजा
समाप्तः श्रीकृष्णार्पणमस्तु References.(1) Mss.-A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :
_I 15 ; II 30 (Anantavratakathā ) and 186 ; IIIb4b.
____B-Descriptive Catalogues :Burnell's Cat. of Tanjore Mss., p. 144° notes several
tracts connected with Ananta. Peterson's Cat. of Ulwar Mss., No. 1248 (has twelve
____tracts on Ananta worship). B. B. R. A. S. Cat. Nos. 750-51 ( Anantavratakathā).
