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Adbhutaśānti, circa 1700-1850.
अद्भुतशान्ति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1338
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Baudhāyana.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedas. Atharvaveda.
- Earthquakes--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1338
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is probably from the Baudhāyanasūtra of Baudhāyana and is a manual including rules, laws, and procedures according to the Atharvaveda tradition that are often employed at the time of natural disasters such as earthquakes.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity ataśāṃtayaḥ // (f. 4r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 3243 (UP 1338).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1338.
- OCLC:
- 908392658
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