Vratodyāpanakaumudī, circa 1861; व्रतोद्यापनकौमुदी,१८६१

Date:

1861

Description:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for performing a number of different observances (vratas), prayers, hand gestures (mudras), as well as Hindu mantras to various deities that are to be performed during the ceremonies, especially the wife of the moon, Kaumudī.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mantras; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Vratas; Mudrās (Hinduism)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Commentaries; Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (49 leaves) : paper; 12 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

India; Moon -- Religious aspects; Moon

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from the margin abbreviations throughout.; Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.; 49 leaves foliated 1-49, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti pradoṣavrataṃ // (f. 49v).; Dated around 1861, which is written as a watermark on several folios.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red or orange throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.; European blue paper with watermarks and the date 1861 written on it.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts