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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967589573503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927415180
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6758957

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Summary

Manual of Hindu laws (dharma), rites, and ceremonies surrounding gift giving drawn from several established sources, such as the Brāhmapurāṇa (f. 1v); especially focused on giving different kinds of domestic animals such as cows, bulls, water buffalo (mahiṣī), and rams.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 31v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms and the initials A and P.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Cows--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Bulls--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Rams--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Water buffalo--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Domestic animals--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

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