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

Title

Authors

• Muñjāditva

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960422493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861292545
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6042249

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study by students and contains instructions on divination and reading astral constellations as well as recommendation for observances (vrata) and their preparatory rites such as shaving the head.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 21v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1867 (1810) (f. 21v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Constellations
• Vratas
• Astronomy--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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