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Grahapaddhati, circa 1700-1850. = ग्रहपद्धति १७००-१८५०.

Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 25 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 189
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Hindu astrology.
Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu architecture.
Yantras.
Puja (Hinduism).
Form/Genre:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Manual and treatise for consultation by a priest for drawing sacred diagrams (yantras), measurements determined by the finger width of the officiating priest, and intended to honor and venerate the planets. Includes a nine-petaled lotus flower diagram (f. 6r).
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
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 4817 (UP 189).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 189.
OCLC:
820002403