One of the most recent and largest nibandhas ("collections"), compiled by scholar Mitra Mishra in the early seventeenth century.
The nibandhas were Hindu lore compendia in which the
compilers culled references on a specific theme from the Vedas, dharma
literature, puranas, and other authoritative religious texts, and then compiled
them into a single volume.
The Viramitrodaya is a massive compendium of Hindu lore,
divided into twenty-two sections, each of which focuses on a different aspect
of Hindu life, such as daily practice, worship, gift-giving (dana), vows,
pilgrimage, penances (prayashchitta), purification, death rites (antyeshthi
samskara), law, and so on, culminating in liberation (moksha).
Mitra Mishra's work became an important source for later
legal interpretation, particularly in eastern India, because he not only cites
relevant scriptural passages but also provides extensive learned commentary.
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