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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819409887
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860880

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual for priests or householders outlining the performance of daily rites of transition (at waking, before noon meal, and before sleep), containing a selection of hymns (some drawn from Vedic sources such as the Gāyatrī mantra) to be recited along with a set of observances.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6v); alternate title Trikālasaṃdhyā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 15-18 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1834 (1787) (f. 6r).
   
• 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 black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Morning customs--Religious aspects
• Noon--Religious aspects
• Night--Religious aspects

Genres

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

Licenses

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