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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960745023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865582297
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6074502

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Summary

Treatise on Hindu astrology drawing on aspects of Tantrism through its correlation between to the eight divine female figures known as yoginīs and various astral bodies, as well as the results yielded through their veneration; the text is presented as a dialogue between the deities Śiva and Pārvatī contemplating astrological systems.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v); alternate title Grahādi yoginī from note by second scribal hand on opening folio (f. 1r)
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Divination
• Tantrism
• Yoginīs
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Dialogues
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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