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

Title

Authors

• Mādhava

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820005690
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864447

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual or guide for use by a priest or ritual specialist, giving instructions for the construction of a sacrificial pit (kuṇḍa) and arena. Contains multiple diagrams and astrological charts.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in upper left verso throughout.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Hindu architecture
• Hindu astronomy

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 180: Kuṇḍakalpadruma are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 2v-3r — chart [3r]
• fol. 3v-4r — chart [3v], chart [4r]
• fol. 8v-9r — multiple diagrams [8v, 9r]
• fol. 9v-10r — multiple diagrams [9v, 10r]
• fol. 10v-11r — diagram [10v]