<p style='text-align: justify;'> This 17th-century Bengalese manuscript contains the <i>Śivadharmaśāstra</i> and the <i>Śivadharmottara</i>, the two earliest texts of the so called <i>Śivadharma</i> corpus, whose earlier works possibly originated around the 6th century, and which usually contains from six to eight texts and deals with religious practices and doctrinal issues of the lay <i>śaiva</i> community. This manuscript is one of the very few instances of the presence of this text in Bengal. </p>