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Title

Authors

• Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819407297
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860886

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a compendium of quotations from other authored works dealing with various kinds of rites and sacrifice. Work was compiled in the early 16th century. One work quoted is the Smārtapiṇḍapitṛyajñaprayoga, which outlines the rules for performing offerings of small rice balls to one's immediate ancestors. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14r).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper middle and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: itī śrīmadviddanmuktūamāṇikyahīrāṃkuraśrīmadbhaṭṭarāmeśvarasutabhaṭṭanārāyaṇakṛte prayogaratne smārttapiṃḍapitṛyajñaprayogaḥ // (f. 14r).
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Rice--Religious aspects
• Worship (Hinduism)

Genres

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

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