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Title

Other related names

• Śivarāma Bhaṭṭaḍhekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951319113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756047808
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5131911

Publisher

Language

Summary

A Vedic supplementary text, recitation of the Agniṣṭoma, for a Maitrāvaruṇa hotṛ priest.

Notes

• Title from rubric (f. 1v) and colophon (f. 20r); alternate title Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇa from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated upper left and bottom right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1857 (1800) śake 1722 (1800) in the cyclical year named Prajāpati, in the dark half of the month of Caitra (March-April), the Aṣṭami day, on Induvāsara (Monday) (f. 20r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line, accents for recitation given in red in part of text.
   
• Scribe is Śivarāma Bhaṭṭaḍhekara (f. 20r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Written near the Kālabhairava temple in the district of Kāśī (Vārānasi) (f. 20r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Agniṣṭoma (Hindu rite)
• Varun̥a (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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