Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910914524
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415551

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Summary

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for making offerings (dāna) of hair, especially by Hindu women.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; blue, European, machine-made paper.
   
• Watermarks of the top part of a Britannia image as well as the date 1859.
   
• Dated after 1859 based on watermark.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hair--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu women
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

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