Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI

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• bibid: 7078447
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078447

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Summary

Treatise and manual on early Vedic ritual and public sacrifices. Lacks a beginning and an ending. Only the third, fourth, and part of the fifth adhyāya are extant.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 33 leaves foliated 41-73, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; metrical accents in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insect damage.
   

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Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts

Genres

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

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