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

Title

Other related names

• Bhāvya, Parśarāmabhaṭṭa ( son of Vāsudeva), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819407326
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860889

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual of rites and contains prayers for use during rites of purification, getting rid of obstacles, and similar rites, on an auspicious day (puṇyāha); it is especially used for purifying children shortly after birth.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1757 caitraśuddha 9 (Tuesday, 7 April 1835) (f. 6r).
   
• Parśarāmabhaṭṭa Bhāvya, son of Vāsudeva (f. 6r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Children--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Childbirth--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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