A lagata from the Gu. La. Jāñ. Aḍḍā recording a silver lamp offered to Patan's Taleju (VS 1780)

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Identifier: K_0621_0069
Title: A lagata from the Gu. La. Jāñ. Aḍḍā recording a silver lamp offered to Patan's Taleju (VS 1780)
Type, original: gahanā lagata; original

Content

Abstract: This document mentions a silver lamp-vessel used for the performance of lighting lamp with five faces offered to the deity. It weighs 24 tolās of silver.
Issued by and to: Gu. La. Jāñ. Aḍḍā
Place: Patan; Taleju
Donor, king: King Viṣṇu Malla Deva
Type of endowment: ārati (perfomance of lighting a lamp with a thread as a worship-ceremony)
Region of endowment:
Purpose of endowment:
Amount of endowment: 1 item

Date

Date: NS 843 unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified
Further details: card gives date as: "VS 1780"
Converted:

Script and language

Language, script: Nepali, Newari; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 26; 6; cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; unspecified; unspecified
Condition: good; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; card no. 219; Pokā no. 4, Lagata no. 313
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 02/01/1998 as NGMPP K 621/69
Running no., exposures: K 41446; 1

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 5/16/16, 12:00 AM; 12/11/21, 9:04 AM; 18
Notes:
Technical terms: tolā

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