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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960420713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861291447
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6042071

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Summary

Manuscript used as a kind of guide book or manual for early Hindu and especially Vedic astronomy and is part of the supplemental literature to the Vedas or the Vedāṅga literature; makes reference to Vedic ritual and an unusual reference to a system of 5 year yugas (cosmic ages).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Astronomy--India
• Yugas
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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