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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819531192
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861723

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or set of instructions outlining rites and mantras to be performed by a priest or family member when someone has died at an inauspicious time of the year. When the moon passes through five constellations that are in alignment, the event is considered inauspicious and specific rites need to be performed so the deceased will pass onto his or her next life without karmic complications.

Notes

• Title from title incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, 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 double red line.
   
• European stock of paper with watermarks, the word "GERVINO" on one folio (f. 1), likely from the early 19th century.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Hindu law
• Hindu astrology
• Karma--India
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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