Vāstuśāntiprayoga, 1816; वास्तुशान्तिप्रयोग,१८१६

Contributor:

Bhāskara Dāḍekara (scribe)

Date:

1816

Description:

Manual including rules of dharma and associated laws for use during the performance of Vedic rites and ceremonies with respect to the creation of sacred spaces, houses, and the like; concerned with appeasing especially domestic deities residing in or presiding over these spaces.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Sacred space; Sacred space -- India; Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts; Hinduism -- Rituals; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu law; Dharma

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper; 11 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).; Written in 10 lines per leaf.; 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: ity āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtrānusārīvāstuśāṃtiprayogaḥ // (f. 3v).; Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 3v); Dated śaka 1738 (1816) (f. 3v).; 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.; Watermarks with a crest and the initials G and M below it.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts