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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa

Other related names

• Dāḍekara, Bhāskarabhaṭṭa, scribe
• Dāḍekara, Bhāskarabhaṭṭa, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958683123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820723975
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5868312

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used as a kind of manual or handbook for consultation by a priest or household member (especially women) wanting to perform the rites, ceremonies, observances (vratas), and worship (pūjā) associated with this rite fasting. Usually performed on Tuesdays at the break of dawn for a variety of personal benefits and is usually held during the month of Śrāvaṇa (July/August). Contains numerous prayers and mantras to be recited.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6r); alternate title Maṅgalavāravrata from incipit.
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Bhāskarabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 6r).
   
• Dated śaka 1704 (1782) (f. 6r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• European stock of paper with watermarks bearing the letters E, A, and M in the center.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Bhāskara (f. 6r); presumably the same person as the scribe, Bhāskarabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara.
   

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Festivals--India
• Fasts and feasts--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu mantras
• Worship (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

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