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231 Beginning. samastapranijatasya hrtpadmanilaye sthitah | End. visayah | vedarthavidusa jneyam yajnatmanam namamyaham || asvalayanastratrasya devakhamyadivyakhyananusarena prayogavrttih kriyate | (yatah khanditam tacchesah ) | ya no mitra varuneti stotriyanurupa, rjuniti na ityarambhaniya | mitram vayamityadi visvajiccastrasesah | brahmanacchamsinah | surupakrtnumuta darsaparnamasaprayogah | agnihotrahomah | cahitagnah pravasakalinagnyupastha- nam | pindapitayajnah | canvarambhanoyestih | punaradheyestiprayogadi | yaya- yanestyadi | putradikamyastayadi | caturmasyestiprayogah | pasubandhaprayogah | ekadasinam pasugananam devatanam kramah | tattadrgdevatadisacamanikarma | haviryajnaprayasvittoktih | mamaprayogah | yajnasesakrtyam | atyagnistoma prayogah sodasikarma | vihrta sodasi | vajapeyaprayogah | atiratraprayogah | ato- yamasya lrptih | sastrasya pratigarah | atiratraparyiyah 1 paundarikasyaikadasa- prayogah | ( khanditatvaditah paravisayo na praptah ) | No. 828. purusottamamahatmyam | Substance, country paper, 10 X 42 inches. Folia, 59. Lines 8 on & page. Extent, 1100 slokas. Character, Nagara. Date, Sm. 1889. Place of deposit, Calcutta, Asiatic Society. Appearance, fresh. Verse. Generally correct. Purushottama-mahatmya. Description of the sacred places in Purusottama or Puri. It professes to be a part of the Khetrakanda of the Vishnu rahasya section of a work named Mahapurushavidyja, probably a Tantra. Though its subject is the same as that of the well known Purushottama Mahatmya of the Skanda Purana, the treatment thereof is entirely different. The MS. is incomplete, and comprises only nine chapters as follows : I. Incarnations of Vishnu. II. Origin of Nilachala, and the reasons why Vishnu assumed the form of a wooden divinity. III-IV. Creation of the different regions of the universe and the guardians of Puri, (different forms of Mahadeva). V. The temples of Jagannatha, VI. The shape of Jagannatha. VII. Vyasa's visit to Puri and praise of the locality. VIII. Merit of visiting Jagannatha at Puri. IX. The mantra of Jagannatha and the merit of tasting food offered to him.