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Vāstuśāntiprayoga, 1782.
वास्तुशान्तिप्रयोग
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 125
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇabhaṭṭa.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Protection magic.
- Housing.
- India.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Housing--India--Religious aspects.
- Protection magic--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 125
- Place of Publication:
- 1782.
- १७८२.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a short manual, the ending of a larger work, outlining ceremonies for entry into a new house, especially for appeasing (śanti) evils and calamities that might befall the family. Claims to be part of the Aśvalāyanīyagṛhya (f. 1r).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 1v).
- Written in 14 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf foliated 1, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭarāmakṛṣṇāviracita ākhalāya na gṛhyo kṛtvā stuśāṃtiprayogaḥ // viśveśvarārppaṇam astu // saṃvat 1839 mitīśrāvaṇavadya 13 magalavāre mahādevabhaṭṭacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ // (f. 1v).
- Scribe is Mahādevabhaṭṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 1v).
- Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 1v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
- 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 3241 (UP 125).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 125
- OCLC:
- 816116269
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