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Title

Lakṣahomapaddhatiprayoga
लक्षहोमपद्धतिप्रयोग

Authors

• Paraśurāma

Other related names

• Nṛsiṅha Dīkṣita (Son of Īśvara Dīkṣita), scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1654
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968148703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932229110
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6814870

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a manual or handbook on religious law (dharma) to be consulted by a priest, outlining rules (religious laws) for the performance of fire sacrifices and prayers offered to the planets.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 54v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 55 leaves foliated 1-55, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1711 (1789) (f. 54v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line through the first 30 folios.
   
• The first 30 folios are from the original manuscript, whereas the condition of the last 24 folios suggests that they may be later replacements.
   
• Scribe is Nṛsiṅha Dīkṣita, son of Īśvara Dīkṣita (f. 54v).
   

Extent

1 item (55 leaves) : 10 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti lakṣahomapaddhatiprayogaḥ samāptaḥ śrīkāśīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 54v).

Subjects topical

• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Sacrifice--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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