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Title

Tithitattva
তিথিতত্ত্ৱ

Authors

• Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, 16th cent

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 308
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959248543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830675120
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5924854

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used by priests or householders for consultation about the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing rites that are to be performed on specific lunar days (tithi) of the Hindu calendar. Small segmented diagram/graph with various individual Bengali characters in most of the segments (f. 62v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 200v).
   
• Written in 5-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 203 leaves foliated 1-45, [i], 46-63, 63-81, [i], 82-200, middle left and middle right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1761 (1839) (f. 200v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

1 item (203 leaves) : 9 x 41 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti vandyaghaḍhīyaśrīharibhaṭṭācāryātmajaśrīraghūnandanabhaṭṭācāryaviracitaṃ tithitattvaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 200v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Hindu astronomy
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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