MS. Sansk. d. 136
MSS. Sansk. d.
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Āhnika, 19th cent.?
Contents
The Āhnika, being a manual of Hindu devotion as practised at the present day
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Incipit: [4] prātaḥkāle samutsthāya ślokatrayam idaṃ paṭhet | sarvasiddhir bhavet tasya tuṣṭo bhavati bhāskaraḥ ǁ 4 ǁ iti basuprabhātavidhiḥ | atha mūtrapuriṣotsargāvidhiḥ | tataḥ prātaḥ samutthāya kuryād viṇmūtram eva ca | nairṛtyādiśivrikṣeyam atityābhyadhikaṃ bhuvaḥ ǁ 1 ǁ kṛttvā yajñopavitaṃ tu pṛṣṭataḥ kamvalaṃvitam | viṇmūtraṃ tu gṛhī kuryād yad vā karṇṇe samāhitaḥ ǁ 2 ǁ viṇmūtreṇa tu karṇas tu āśrame prathamotame | nīvītaḥ pṛṣṭataḥ kuryād vānaprasthagṛhasthayoḥ ǁ 3 ǁ aṃtarddhāya nṛṇair bhūmi śiraḥ prāvṛtya vāsasā | vācaṃ niyamya yatnena ṣṭīvanośvāsavarjjitaḥ ǁ 4 ǁ utsare maithune caiva prasnāve daṃtadhāvane | snāne bhojanakāle ca ṣaṭsu maunaṃ samācaret ǁ 5 ǁ saṃdhyayor ubhayor jāpye bhojane daṃtadhāvane | pitṛkārye ca daive ca tathā mūtrapurīṣayoḥ ǁ 6 ǁ gurūṇāṃ saṃnidhau dāne yoge caiva viśeṣataḥ | eṣu maunaṃ samātiṣṭan svargaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ ǁ 7 ǁ ubhe mūtrapurīṣe tu divā kuryād udaṅmukhaḥ | dakṣiṇābhimukho rātrau saṃdhyayaś ca yathā divā ǁ 8 ǁ
Explicit: [45v] iti śayanavidhiḥ | āhnikaṃ samāptaṃ |
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 24.8 × 13.3 cm.
Condition
ff. 1–3, 26, 27 are missing; ff. 28, 29 show lacunae; ff. 40–45 are pierced by a hole.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī.
History
Origin: 19th cent.?
perhaps the middle of the 19th century.
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1495, p. 281
Availability
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Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1495, p. 281
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