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Title

Prāyaścittamañjarī
प्रायश्चित्तमञ्जरी

Authors

• Bāpūbhaṭṭa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1621
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967782603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/929184257
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6778260

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a Hindu law (dharma) treatise, employed as a manual for consultation, illuminating rites of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta) and the proper rites and rituals associated with them such as different kinds of penances (for example, brahmakūrca, sāṃtapana, prājāpatya, and many more).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 75v-76r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 92 leaves foliated 1-16, 1-76, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 quadruple red line.
   
• Single wooden board with beveled edges and carved border to support the manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (92 leaves) : 11 x 31 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmaccitayāvanekelakaropabhidhamahādevātmajabāpūbhaṭṭaviracitā prāyaścitamaṃjarī samāptā // śrīrāmacaṃdrāya namaḥ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇamastu // śubhaṃbhavat // (f. 75v-76r).

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Atonement (Hinduism)
• Sin--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents, 1r-16v