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Title

Authors

• Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa, active 18th century

Other related names

• Gaṅgādhara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967599553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927455549
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6759955

Publisher

Language

Summary

Treatise on rituals associated with reciting the supposed one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Caṇḍī. Three small yantras of intersecting triangles at the end of the manuscript represent the goddess. This work comes from a larger work on ritual called Nirṇayasindhu.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 16r); alternate title Nirṇayasindhu supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1700 (1778) (f. 16r).
   
• Scribe is Gaṅgādhara (f. 16r)
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, phrases, and syllables highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Watermarks with some kind of coat of arms as well as a lion with a crown.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Caṇḍi (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Yantras--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 15v-16r — Ink diagrams, f. 16r