A document recording a golden necklace offered to Gorakhā's Śrī Manakāmanāmāi by Queen Rājarājeśvarī

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Identifier: K_0249_0081
Title: A document recording a golden necklace offered to Gorakhā's Śrī Manakāmanāmāi by Queen Rājarājeśvarī
Type, original: unspecified

Content

Abstract: This document refers to a golden necklace of beads studded with a white topaz offered to the deity by Queen Rājrājeśvari immediate before committing sati (self immolation with her dead husband in the funeral pyre). It weighs 8 1/2 tolās of gold.
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Date

Date: unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified
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Script and language

Language, script: Nepali; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 24.00; 3.00; cm
No. of folios: 1
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; bound; brown
Condition: unspecified; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; 84; Gorakhā Śrī Manakāmanāmāi Gahanā Guṭhī; Gu. La. no. 532 Po. no. 5
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 19/06/1992 as NGMPP K 249/81
Running no., exposures: K 15093

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 5/31/19, 12:00 AM; 5/31/19, 12:00 AM; 18
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Technical terms: tolā

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