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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa (Son of Nīlakaṇṭha)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910899577
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415509

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manual including rules and laws (dharma) for rites and observances (vratas) in a celebration and praise of the Hindu elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa that occurs during each lunar month to help avoid trouble and pain. The manuscript was likely part of a larger compendium of observances (vratas) called the Vratārka which itself is likely drawn from the Skandapurāṇa (f. 8v).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Saṃkaṣṭacaturthi from colophon (f. 8v); title of source text, the Skandapurāṇa, from colophon (f. 8v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1762 (1840) (f. 8v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Vratas
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Hindu astrology

Genres

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

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