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Grahapaddhati, circa 1700-1850.
ग्रहपद्धति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 189
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu astrology.
- Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Planets.
- Hindu architecture.
- Yantras.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 189
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual and treatise for consultation by a priest for drawing sacred diagrams (yantras), measurements determined by the finger width of the officiating priest, and intended to honor and venerate the planets. Includes a nine-petaled lotus flower diagram (f. 6r).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 8 lines per leaf.
- 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 4817 (UP 189).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 189.
- OCLC:
- 820002403
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