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Title

Other related names

• Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963979773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908392444
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6397977

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Language

Summary

Manual including rules of dharma and associated laws for use during the performance of Vedic rites and ceremonies with respect to the creation of sacred spaces, houses, and the like; concerned with appeasing especially domestic deities residing in or presiding over these spaces.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 3v)
   
• Dated śaka 1738 (1816) (f. 3v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Watermarks with a crest and the initials G and M below it.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sacred space--India
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

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