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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820002437
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864467

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Summary

Manual to be consulted by priests or householders for performing rites of veneration to the nine planets (consisting of planets and other astrological bodies).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 14-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated possibly saṃvat 1871 (1824) (f. 4v); number appears at the end of the manuscript but without the standard "saṃvat" (cannot be "śaka" as the manuscript entered the Penn collection before that date).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu astrology

Genres

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

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