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Title

Other related names

• Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964067403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909615232
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6406740

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Summary

Text outlines the observances (vrata), rites and laws (dharma) to be performed during the "extra month" (adhimāsa) referred to as Malamāsa (impure month), an intercalary month often associated with misfortune and considered inauspicious. Performing these rites and observances is thought to alleviate such negative associations.

Notes

• Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa (f. 6v); likely with the family name Dāḍekara based on other manuscripts from this scribe (example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1392, f. 13r).
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Partial watermark on final folio including the letters N and B, the roman numeral VII, and possible parts of animals.
   

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Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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