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

Title

Authors

• Br̥haspati
• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969651143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/947843564
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6965114

Publisher

Language

Summary

The first part of the manuscript is an astrological work for the purpose of divination derived from Vedic rites and ceremonies with a list of different gifts to be offered at specific times of year; text is part of a secondary body of Vedic literature referred to as the Pariśiṣṭas; the second part of the manuscript is a hymn to the nine planets attributed to the poet Kālidāsa.

Notes

• Title for manuscript from title for first work in internal colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Svapnādhyāyastotra supplied by cataloger; title of second work Navagrahastotra from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, 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 red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Hymns
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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