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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958497773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816100949
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849777

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Summary

Manuscript employed as an instruction manual for performing Hindu rites of pūjā (worship) with food offerings and setting up images during the end of the month of Śukra (May/June), when the planet Venus is in transition, in order to alleviate or atone (prāyaścitta) the inauspicious and negative qualities associated with this period.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Puja (Hinduism)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Idols and images--India--Religious aspects
• Food--India--Religious aspects
• Atonement--Religious aspects
• Hindu astronomy

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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