Grahayajñatraya, circa 1700-1850.
ग्रहयज्ञत्रय

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Jayata, son of Valabhadra, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu astronomy.

Planets.

Planets--Aeronautics.

Planets--Age.

Planets--Core.

Planets--Density.

Planets--Mantles.

Planets--Mass.

Planets--Radiation.

Planets--Rotation.

Planets--Seasons.

Planets--Transits.

Planets--Wind erosion.

Planets--Winds.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Sacrifice--Hinduism.

Sacrifice.

Puja (Hinduism).

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 185

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be consulted by a priest, outlining rules (religious laws) for the performance of three different kinds of fire sacrifices and prayers offered to the planets. Each sacrifice (Ayutahomapaddhati, Lakṣahoma, and Koṭihoma) is treated separately.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Ayutahomapaddhati

(Part 2:) Lakṣahoma

(Part 3:) Koṭihoma.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).

Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti koṭihoma // vyalekhīdaṃ grahayajñatrayaṃ dhīrādhirājadhārmikālokaśrīmatpaṃḍitavalabhaḍrasūnājayatena // (f. 5r).

Scribe is Jayata, son of Valabhadra (f. 5v).

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 3330 (UP 185).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 185

OCLC:

820003704