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A lagata from the Guṭhī Kharca listing a set of items offered during Tija Pūjā at Kaḍelacoka's Śrī Bhagavatī

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Identifier: K_0589_0051
Title: A lagata from the Guṭhī Kharca listing a set of items offered during Tija Pūjā at Kaḍelacoka's Śrī Bhagavatī
Type, original: kharca; original

Content

Abstract: This document signifies the importance of Tija Pūja observed by the married woman. During this festival the woman used to offer the saubhāgya items containing glass-bracelets, comb, thread, tikkā and looking glass to the deity as signs of prosperity for married woman.
Issued by and to: Guṭhī Kharca Aḍḍā; trustee
Place: Kathmandu; Kaḍelacoka Bhagavati: Tija Pūjā-Bhādra śudi 3
Donor, king: Guṭhī Kharca Aḍḍā
Type of endowment: saubhāgya sāmāna (auspicious items of the woman), glass-bracelets, comb, thread, glassbeads, tikkā, hooking glass
Region of endowment:
Purpose of endowment:
Amount of endowment: one set of auspicious items

Date

Date: unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified
Further details:
Converted:

Script and language

Language, script: Nepali; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 21.00; 35.00; cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; unspecified; unspecified
Condition: fair; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; card no. 29; Pokā no. 6
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 20/05/1997 as NGMPP K 589/51
Running no., exposures: K 38965; 1

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 8/25/17, 12:00 AM; 11/8/21, 12:58 PM; 18
Notes: card gives upper margin as: "Bhagavatī Tīja Pūjā Kaḍela" card specifies document as: "unrecorded"
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