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Nakṣatraśānti, circa 1700-1850.
नक्षत्रशान्ति
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu astrology.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- 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 (8 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1400
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites of protection and health for people born under a particular astrological house (nakṣatra).
- Notes:
- Title from end title page (f. 8r).
- Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
- 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti nakṣaśāṃtiḥ samāptaḥ (f. 7v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 3249 (UP 1400).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1400.
- OCLC:
- 910639129
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