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

Title

Other related names

• Candravallabha, dedicatee

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819548706
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861734

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a collection or compendium of Vedic hymns dedicate to ancestors, to be employed during Hindu funeral services. Manuscript was likely used in a funeral rite.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 31r).
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1728 (1806) (f. 31r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red and black; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Formerly housed with item 173 and item 174.
   
• Bound on top horizontal.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Written for the abolution ceremony (udaka) of Candravallabha (the dedicatee), likely at his funeral (f. 31r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Vedic literature
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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