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Title

Other related names

• Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957025353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/786343031
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5702535

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Summary

Treatise on how to perform vows, especially fasting, during the sixth day of the month of Bhādrapada (August to September) and dedicated to Hala, the one who bears the plough, an epithet of the Hindu deity Balarāma, the elder brother of the Kṛṣṇa. Vow helps women to give birth to sons and its preliminary rites involve bathing, inviting the presence of Śiva and Gaurī (Pārvatī) and offering them fragrant flowers and other gifts and must be presided over by a Brahman with knowledge of pratiṣṭha rites. Frames some of the vows within the mythology of the legendary figure Candrabhaṭṭa who lived in the city of Candra and various other Hindu mythological figures.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1914 (1857) (f. 5v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Scribe is Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 5 v) possibly related to Bhāskara Daḍekara, the scribe named in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1419.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Balarāma (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu goddesses
• Vratas
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Childbirth--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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