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Somasaṃsthāpaddhati, 1817.
सोमसंस्थापद्धति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 68
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Govardhana Dīkṣita.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Soma.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Agniṣṭoma (Hindu rite).
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (47 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 68
- Place of Publication:
- 1817.
- १८१७.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Author named in manuscript as Śrīdīkṣita Tripāthī Govardhana (f. 46v).
- Summary:
- Vedic text, late ritual text, guide book to 7 sacrifices to Soma, with additional song (gāna) at end.
- Contents:
- Somasaṃsthāpaddhati (from the Agniṣṭoma)
- Akṣarāṇi chāditāni gānāni (from the Agniṣṭoma).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 46r-46v).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 47 leaves foliated 1-46, [47], upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon (work 1): itiśrīdīkṣītatripāṭhīgovardhanena viracitāyāṃ [soma]saṃsthāpaddhatauprathamo 'gniṣṭomasamāptaḥ / saṃvat 1873 kārtike māsi śuklapakṣe paurṇasāsyāṃ iṃduvāsare kāthāṃ tilakaveṃkaṭeśena likhāpitaṃ / svārthaṃparopakārārthaṃca / śrī / śrī / śrī / (f. 46r-46v).
- Colophon (work 2): ityāj̄āni / (f. 47r).
- Dated saṃvat 1873 (1817), in Kārtika (October-November), in the bright half of the month (f. 46v).
- Scribe is Tilaka Veṅkateśa (f. 46v).
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out, some marginal notations, highlights in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line, chant indicated in red above syllables through most of text.
- Non-Latin script record
- Cited in:
- Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 257 (UP 68).
- Cited as:
- Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 68
- Contains:
- Agniṣṭomādisaptasaṃsthā.
- Saptasomasaṃsthāpaddhati.
- Govardhanīprāraṃbha.
- Agniṣṭomagovardhanī.
- Akṣarāṇi chāditāni gānāni.
- Ājāni.
- OCLC:
- 755032999
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