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Title

Prāyaścittaviveka
प्रायश्चित्तविवेक

Authors

• Śūlapāṇi, active 1365-1445

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1643
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967921003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930727203
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6792100

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a treatise employed for consultation, reflection, and discussion and is an explanation, illumination, and commentary regarding the secrets of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta) and the proper rites and rituals, such as fire sacrifice, to achieve these goals (such as the removal of sin or pāpa). There is a table of contents at the end of the manuscript (Part 2, f. 1r-3v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 218r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 221 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-218, (Part 2) 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; table of contents has three columns outlined with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (221 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīpāyaścittavivekoparacitaḥ śūlapāṇinā // pathāsatāmurasthānavirājitāṃ subhāṣitaṃ (f. 218r).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Tables of contents
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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