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Pallīpatanaphala, circa 1700-1850.
पल्लीपतनफल
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1892
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Lizards.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Lizards--Symbolic aspects.
- Animals--Symbolic aspects.
- Animals.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 20 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1892
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual on prognostication for dealing through different ritual practices with the negative effects that can be caused by house-lizards (pallī) falling onto the human body.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves.
- Colophon: iti pallīsarayayoḥ phalaṃ likhitaṃ // śrī // (f. 2v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Scribe is Mairālabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).
- 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 5259 (UP 1892).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1892.
- OCLC:
- 947871886
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