Astrāvāhana

Fol. 1a gives the contents of this bundle; fol. [1Ab],has a prayer addressed to the god tanunātha and the goddess sahāyadāmnī; fol. [1Ba], an enumeration of the 26 preliminary rites connected with the utsava; fols. [2a]-[5b], ā'sirvacana-s for the dhvajārohaṇa of the god tanunātha and goddess sahāyavallī, permission from the king and vighneśvara and some statements about various types of utsava said to be taken from the suprabhedāgama; fols. [5b]-[7a], nālikeralakṣaṇa, rathalagna, etc.; fol. [8], fragments of cūrṇotsava supposed to form part of the kāmikāgama; fol. [10Aa], fragments of malamāsadoṣavidhi; fol. [29b], prativacana-s; fol. [47a], some lines on śivotsavavidhi; fol. [48], gāyatrīmantra-s for dikpāla-s; fol. [49a], a few lines on brahmasandhi; fols. [50a]-[51a], the first few verses of the nayasāra with Tamil translation; fol. [52a], a verse on subrahmaṇyadhyāna and fol. [76a] has a fragment of bheritāḍanaśloka. This text enumerates the various parts of the triśūla in which different deities are worshipped at the time of dhvajārohaṇa. This seems to be a brief version of devatāvāhana. As the fol.[9] is broken the matter is found incomplete