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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960784743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867635407
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078474

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Summary

Manuscript is a narrative presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Pārvatī and Śiva that serves as a treatise and guide on Hindu astronomy from a Tantric perspective, correlating between the heavenly bodies and Tantric doctrine.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-13, [14], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Final folio is written in a different hand.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India
• Tantrism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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• Text

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