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A lālamohara from the King ordering Mahanta Rāma Rakṣyā Dāsa etc. not to hire or fire any monk at Matihāni Maṭha (VS 1934)

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Identifier: K_0358_0004
Title: A lālamohara from the King ordering Mahanta Rāma Rakṣyā Dāsa etc. not to hire or fire any monk at Matihāni Maṭha (VS 1934)
Type, original: lālamohara; copy

Content

Abstract: This lālamohara issues an order to Mahanta Rāma Rakṣā Dāsa and Mahanta Lalita Dāsa not to hire or fire any persons for the post of the monk without prior assent of the king. In accordance with the few lines in Sanskrit persons guilty of misappropriating the trust land shall be condemned to hell as worms for 60 thousand years.
Issued by and to: king; Mahanta Rāma Rakṣyā Dāsa and Lalita Dāsa
Place: Matihāni, Mahottari; Matihāni Maṭha Pūjā Guṭhī
Donor, king: Rāja Guṭhī
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Date

Date: VS 1934 Jyeṣṭha dark 3 Wednesday
Further details: card gives month as: "Dvitiya"
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Script and language

Language, script: Nepali; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 25.00; 45.00; cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; bound; unspecified
Condition: unspecified; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; cards no. 1-186; Kausi-Tośākhānā, Book no. 1; Bha. Gu. La. Ta. Ms. no. 150
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 28/02/1994 as NGMPP K 358/4
Running no., exposures: K 22007; 2

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 4/27/18, 12:00 AM; 12/10/22, 8:56 AM; 18
Notes:
Technical terms: mahanta

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