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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820002398
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864462

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Summary

Manual for use by a priest outlining the methods and rules (laws) related to a sacred diagram intended to honor the nine planets (navagraha) and reflect positively on the person for whom the diagram is being commissioned. Includes two syllabary charts at the end of the manuscript (f. 2v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Yantras
• Hindu law

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — two charts [2v]