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Title

Bhūmivarga
भूमिवर्ग

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2694
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975392183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973954375

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Treatise on various kinds of classifications (varga) such as land divisions, cities, mountains, and caste. Commentary runs above and below the lines of each line of the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from incipit (internal colophon) (f. 4r).
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• 116 leaves foliated 4-119, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti bhūmivargaḥ // (f. 4v).
   
• 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.
   
• Watermarks of Gior Magnani and 220.
   

Extent

1 item (116 leaves) : 11 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Cities and towns--India
• Mountains--India
• Caste

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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