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Title

Other related names

• Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964129253503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910639241
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6412925

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Summary

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites constructing banks of earth around a banyan or vaṭa tree (Ficus benghalensis) at the end of a larger observance of rites.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9r).
   
• Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 20r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1716 (1794) (f. 9v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Partial watermark of a commercial design that looks like the crest or base of a coat of arms with the initials A and G.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Banyan tree--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Tree worship--India--Early works to 1800
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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