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Svapnādhyāya, circa 1700-1850.
स्वप्नाध्याय
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2730
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Br̥haspati.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2730
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- An astrological work for the purpose of divination derived from Vedic rites and ceremonies with a list of different gifts to be offered at specific times of year; text is part of a secondary body of Vedic literature referred to as the Pariśiṣṭas.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2v).
- Written in 11 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated (1-2), upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti vṛhasyatiproktaḥ svapnādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, phrases, or numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- 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 5236 (UP 2730).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2730.
- OCLC:
- 974381454
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