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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960474663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861757941
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6047466

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual for performing Vedic rites and interpreting Vedic astrology for the purpose of divination; text is part of a secondary body of Vedic literature referred to as the Pariśiṣṭas. Contains a list of mantras dedicated to Hindu deities on the front page (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1881 (1824) (f. 6v).
   
• 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.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Divination--India
• Hindu astrology
• Hinduism--Rituals
• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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