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Vratakaustubha, circa 1700-1850.
व्रतकौस्तुभ
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vratas.
- Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Fasting.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1585
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual and treatise on observances, especially those associated with fasting (vrata).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti vidyāvrataṃ (f. 21r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Blue, European-made paper with the watermark J. Caperony on some folios.
- 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 3231 (UP 1585).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1585.
- OCLC:
- 927414786
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