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[NV.S.] 
the diksa@ or initiation, it proceeds to describe the rites for the 
worship of deities, Sirya, Siva, Brahma, Visnu and Durga, 
ending with the car-festivals, the ratha-yatras of Siva, Brahma 
and Durga, but without any mention of Jagannath’s car- 
festival. Judging from Candesvara who imitated Laksmidhara 
and wr a volume on the worships of deities named 
‘the Pija-rainakara, this MS. may be called the Paja kanda of 
the Krtya-kalpa-taru, forming one of the missing sections. 
- Similarly, in the Mala-masa and Prayascitta tattvas 
Raghunandana quotes a Prayascitta-kanda kalpa-taru,'! a sec- 
samhita, Manu-samhita and other Dharma-Sastras) would 
have been left entirely untouched in Laksmidhara’s Digest. So 
there would have been at least a Prayascitta-kanda. The 
position of Puja would naturally be after Pratistha, i.e. the 
seventh, and of Prayascitta before Suddhi, i.e. the ninth ; and 
we see that these are the two wanting in the fullest MS. 
In the Vyavahara-kanda the author speaks of a Vivaha- 
kanda.? Whether this was an independent section or formed 
Various Puranas, and the Smrti-writer sages, with interpreta- 
tions of their words and only occasional comments. efer- 
: 5! re. Medhatithi, the 
I have found a few 
the Kama-dhenu, the 
7] | prakasa, Vijianesvara, Sabara 
: in and Halayuadha. This Halayudha is, of course, ifferent 
‘ from Halayudha Bhatta, the judge of the king’ Laksmana- 
Senadeva, co 
‘nthe front leaf qpwaty caaTamae:, the MS. seems to be of West 
: — The folios are of country-made whitish paper, two papers pasted 
ming a leaf, size 12+” x 32”. 
agg Phe Astavinnsati-tattvani, 
2 Ind. Govt. MS, No. 1437, fol. l0la:—-aq faarefafufaareare 
tra: j 
Sr. ed., Mala-masa, i. 434; Prayascitta, 
