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

Title

Authors

• Br̥haspati

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960620603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864303987
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6062060

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of treatise, commentary, and hymn (stotra) about the Svapnādhyāya or Dream chapter, a section of supplemental Vedic literature (Pariśiṣṭa) that highlights the ritual performances related to the hymns of the Atharva Veda; text deals with astrological subjects and especially divination. There is a flower diagram (yantra) with Sanskrit characters on the leaves, on the front cover (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Astronomy--India
• Divination--India
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

• Commentaries
• Hymns
• 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 687: Svapnādhyāyastotra 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/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Floral diagram and chart, f. 1r