Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Dinakarabhaṭṭa

Other related names

• Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964087403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910116516
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6408740

Publisher

Language

Summary

Collection of rules and laws (dharma) that functions as a manual associated with rites and ceremonies to appease and correct misfortunes that occur when the moon passes through different constellations (nakṣatras), especially if a child is born during an inauspicious time.

Notes

• Watermark of the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 13r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1706 (1786) (f. 13r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; lengthy addition in margin (f. 5r); some significant phrase highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 13r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Constellations--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Texts--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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