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Nakṣatrapīḍāśānti vidhānamālā, 1786.
नक्षत्रपीडाशान्ति विधानमाला
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1394
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dinakarabhaṭṭa.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Constellations.
- Hinduism.
- India.
- Constellations--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Dharma--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1394
- Place of Publication:
- 1786.
- १७८६.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Collection of rules and laws (dharma) that functions as a manual associated with rites and ceremonies to appease and correct misfortunes that occur when the moon passes through different constellations (nakṣatras), especially if a child is born during an inauspicious time.
- Notes:
- Watermark of the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.
- Title from colophon (f. 13r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti dinakarabhaṭṭakṛte śāṃtisāre vyādhinakṣatratithivāraśāṃtayaḥ // (f. 13r).
- Dated śaka 1706 (1786) (f. 13r).
- Mistakes blacked out; lengthy addition in margin (f. 5r); some significant phrase highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 13r).
- 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 3248 (UP 1394).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1394.
- OCLC:
- 910116540
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