Ekanakṣatraśāntiprayoga, circa 1700-1850.
एकनक्षत्रशान्तिप्रयोग

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Hindu law.

Hindu astronomy.

Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.

Purity, Ritual.

Childbirth--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Childbirth.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 186

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of handbook or manual to be used by a priest or family member; it prescribes and outlines rules (religious laws) for performing protective rites to avoid death if a birth occurs when the moon enters a lunar station comprising only one star. This is considered inauspicious and needs to be corrected through the prescribed rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).

Written in 12 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right recto and verso.

Colophon: ity ekanakṣatraśāntiprayogaḥ // (f. 2v).

Mistakes blacked out.

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 3250 (UP 186).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 186

OCLC:

820002364