NEW DELHI, Dec. 18—The western front between India and Pakistan was reported quiet today, with only a ‘'few minor breaches” of the cease fire that went into effect yesterday, an official Indian spokesman said.

New Delhi turned its lights back on for the first time since the war began on Dec. 3, and Indians celebrated their decisive victory quietly, with a feeling that their country had gained a new stature in the world.

“I think hereafter all of us can be a little prouder than we were that we are Indians,” said one member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, in a ceremony honoring Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. His sentiment was widely echoed in the Parliament and the press.

Await Word on Leadership

There were no signs of negotiations yet between India and Pakistan, as the Indian Government awaited word from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, about who was now the leader of the Government there.

An Indian spokesman said that India intended to keep all the territory she had won in Kashmir during the two weeks of fighting.

Indian officials, including

Mrs. Gandhi, have repeatedly asserted that India had “no designs” on Pakistani territory. But India regards all of Kashmir as part of India, and the Pakistanis as illegal squatters there since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

In explaining India's position today, the spokesman said that the old cease‐fire line in Kashmir “is not an international boundary,” and “now we have a new cease‐fire line.”

During the war, India said she had taken 36 mountain posts near Kargil in northern Kashmir, the Lippe Valley in northwestern Kashmir and number of commanding heights in the Poonch area. Pakistan took about 50 square miles of Indian territory at Chhamb in southwestern Kashmir.

Report Reprisals Continue

Indian officials in New Delhi said again today they had no knowledge of reports that killings and reprisals were continuing in Dacca, the occupied capital of East Pakistan.

“We would have to wait for reports from the Bangladesh Government before we believe foreign press reports,” the spokesman said. Bangladesh, or Bengal Nation, is the name of the country proclaimed by leaders of the independence movement in East Pakistan. Bangladesh is recognized by India.

According to accounts reaching New Delhi, some of the victorious Mukti Bahini, or liberation force, guerrillas were taking revenge on non‐Bengalis in Dacca and some razakers members of the Pakistani militia — who had not yet been disarmed were still killing Bengalis.

India has repeatedly said she would provide protection under the Geneva convention to all captured Pakistani forces, both regular and militia, in East Pakistan.

The Indian Government played down reports of violations of the cease‐fire line along the 1,400‐mile western front, which runs from the Arabian Sea coast in the south to Kashmir in the north.

Indian spokesmen In New Delhi insisted that there were only “some shelling and small infantry probes” by the Pakistanis. They said that “minor breaches are to be expected” after two weeks of heavy fighting.

“Perhaps the cease‐fire orders haven't gotten down to the local units,” one official explained.

The Indian Western Army Command in Jullundur reported earlier in the day, however, that there had been at least six cease‐fire violations by the Pakistanis. The Western Command spokesman termed them “major attacks.”

He reported that as late as 11:30 A.M. today two Pakistani companies—about 250 men — attacked an Indian post in northern Kashmir with artillery support.

Ordered to Hold Positions

Indian troops have “strict instructions not to take any offensive actions,” an official in New Delhi said. But Indian troops have also been ordered to hold all positions they occupied when the cease‐fire went into effect last night.

Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram told the Parliament to day that Indiana would now try to “forge a new relation ship of friendship and cooperation with Pakistan through bi lateral negotiations.”

Yesterday Mrs. Gandhi sounded a similar theme before the Parliament, saying that India held no enmity toward the people of Pakistan and hoped for a peaceful reconciliation.

Indian officials said that the two speeches represented part of a new Indian policy to seek better relations with the Pakistani regime.

New Delhi took its triumph quietly, with no noisy celebrations, no singing in the streets and no fireworks. But there was a new mood of confidence in India today.

The Indian Army was no longer the weakling that had been routed by China in 1962 and held to a stalemate by Pakistan in 1965, and the country for one of the first times in its history appeared united.

When Mrs. Gandhi, dressed in a gray silk sari and a blue shawl, arrived in the usually acrimonious Parliament this morning, she was greeted with the thumping of desks and loud cries of “Indira Gandhi Zindabad!” (“Long Live Indira Gandhi!”).