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Vivāhatattva circa 1750-1899.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, active 16th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Marriage.
- Dharma.
- Rites and ceremonies--Bangladesh.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Bangladesh.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- commentaries
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 leaves) : illustrations
- Contained In:
- Rāmamālā Library 1581
- Other Title:
- Udvāhatattva.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1750-1899.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Biography/History:
- The son of Harihara Bhaṭṭācārya (f. 54v).
- Summary:
- Manual with instructions and rules (dharma) for rites and ceremonies related to marriage. Contains a commentary running above and below the root text.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
- Written in 4-5 lines per folio.
- 48 leaves foliated 1-13, 20-54, middle right verso; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping with notes.
- Title from colophon (f. 54v); alternate title Udvāhatattva from wrapper notes.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Notes and numbers on manuscript in modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6059; Dharmma: 822.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 36 cm.
- Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
- Scribe is Gaurīkānta Devaśarmmaṇa (f. 54v).
- OCLC:
- 915550216
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