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

Title

Other related names

• Lohanī, Viṣṇudatta, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819409904
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860878

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual for use by priests or householders performing different kinds of rites. The first is called Vaiśvadevavidhi and consists of offerings to various Hindu deities; the second is called Nityaśraddhavidhi and consists of offerings to one's ancestors. Text contains a collection of various mantras to various deities to be recited during the various rites. There is a diagram with 23 numbered mantras written in red ink (f. 3v).

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Śrāddhavidhi from colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Viṣṇudatta Lohanī (f. 6v).
   

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Libations--India
• Hindu mantras
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 3v-4r — diagram [f. 3v]