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Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇaprayoga, 1800.
आग्निष्टोममैत्रावरुणप्रयोग
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 75
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Agniṣṭoma (Hindu rite).
- Varuṇa (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Written near the Kālabhairava temple in the district of Kāśī (Vārānasi) (f. 20r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 75
- Other Title:
- Agniṣṭomamaitrāvaruṇa.
- Place of Publication:
- 1800.
- १८००.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- 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.
- Colophon: ityagniṣṭomamaitrāvarūṇaprayogaḥ // saṃvat 1857 śake 1722 // prajāpatināmasaṃva[t]sare / caitrakṛṣṇ[e] aṣṭamyāṃ iṃduvāsare ta dine radaṃ pustakaṃ śivarāmabhaṭṭaḍhekareṇa likhitaṃ svārthaṃ paramārthaṃ ceti bo[ddha]vyaṃ / śrīsāṃbasaddāśivārpaṇam astu / mukāmaśrīkāśīkṣetrakālabhairavasamīpe likhitaṃ / artitabhūrikaṣṭena pustakaṃ likhitaṃmayā / hartum icchati yaḥ pāpītasya vaṃśaḥ kṣayo 'bhavet / (f. 20r).
- 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.
- 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 265 (UP 75).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 75
- OCLC:
- 756044122
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