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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819568273
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861735

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be employed by a priest or senior family member during rites of worship (pūjā) dedicated to the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, a form of Viṣṇu.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 9-13 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. Written by two different scribal hands.
   
• Formerly housed with item 174 and item 175.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 173: Satyanārāyaṇapūjāvidhi are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode