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

Title

Other related names

• Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara, scribe
• Viṣṇu Datta, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962067173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880382377
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6206717

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and is a kind of treatise (Hindu law) and astrological work dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva and deals with procedures and rites for dispelling negative things that enter into a person's life (sickness, financial troubles,demons etc.).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 28r).
   
• Written in 5-7 lines per leaf.
   
• 28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1732 (1810) (f. 28r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Scribe is Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara (f. 28r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Viṣṇu Datta (f. 28v).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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