Vol. VIIT, No. 9.) Bhatia Bhavadeva of Bengal. 335 
[N.8.] 
(iii) Prayascitta-niri panam. 
Two pups ag in the Sanskrit College, Calcutta (Nos. 
183 and 184) and a copy made recently therefrom I e 
seen. I have further consulted the abstracts given of the 
India Office Library MS. No. 561, of the MS. No. 3138 in 
R. L. Mittra’s ‘‘ Notices’’ (IX. 314), and of the MS. No. 240 
in H. P. Shastri’s Notices (I. 237). The work begins with 
salutation to gael seek wo Brahma as in the Daésa-karma-pad- 
dhati) and then sa 
aes a (or @ )fafay auaAAg | 
faa wataa grafsafaequa | [21 | 
In the colophons of its first five paricchedas or chapters 
the work is named as Prayascitta-prakaranam, while in the 
sixth or last colophon it appears as Prayascitta-prakarana- 
niripanam. The first chapter, for example, ends with xfa 
sifufaufea Sivataadt srafeasaem ayufese: BATH: | 
(fol. 18a) ; the fourth chapter with afa ( aT ) 1taSut- ( aaHt 
in Ind. Of. MS.) qaimuxaret ugaivataaat srafes- 
TRUM sMMITATyLSe? 0 (fol. 40b).! 
The title, Bala-valabhi- (or vadabhi-)bhujamga, is given 
in all the colophons except the first (in the Sanskrit foagy® 
copy omitted in the second colophon also). The MS. No. 
of H. P. Shastri has at the end a slightly different — 
Bala-vadabhiya-bhujamga. This peculiar title at once fixes the 
eva. 
The treatise discusses sins and the modes of their expiation 
Cnimuateltti The first chapter deals with the great sins, 
e murder of men, women and animals. The second chapter 
with forbidden persons. The fifth deals with expiations for 
improper contract, such as forbidden marriages, sale of for 
bidden goods, touch with the untouchables. The last chapter 
is sat oes to the penances prescribed in expiation 
work quotes from or refers to a considerable number 
of omrti treatises A list of the authorities thus mentioned 
is given below 
1 The folio references are to the recent copy from the Sanskrit 
College MSS. 
