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

Title

Authors

• Viṭṭhaladīkṣita, 17th cent

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819407319
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860888

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual, with diagrams, to be used by a priest, outlining the rules for the erection and construction of altars and halls that are to be the location of sacrificial rites. Manuscript is incomplete but contains two diagrams (yantra) of an eight-pointed star and a hexagram, both in red ink (f. 6r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7r).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-3, 6-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu architecture
• Altars--India
• Sacred space--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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