Dāyasaṃgraha

Manual that is a collection of rites and their associated rules and laws (dharma), especially those rites for overcoming mistakes and negative actions performed in daily life as well as during rituals, called prāyaścitta. Rites are especially focused on killing and include those performed for having killed or murdered a Brahman, a Kṣatriya, a cow, a woman, as well as a woman who has had an abortion, and others. Cotton and wood pulp paper; moderate condition, unbound. Two covers made of some kind of modern particle board. 8 x 48 cm; 160 folios. Alternate title Smṛtisāratattvam written on cover notes. Notes and numbers written on manuscript by modern Bengali scholars: Kra: 500; Dharmma: 149 Vi.