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

Title

Other related names

• Jayata, son of Valabhadra, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820006680
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864454

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be consulted by a priest, outlining rules (religious laws) for the performance of three different kinds of fire sacrifices and prayers offered to the planets. Each sacrifice (Ayutahomapaddhati, Lakṣahoma, and Koṭihoma) is treated separately.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Jayata, son of Valabhadra (f. 5v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Planets
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

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