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

Title

Authors

• Saṅkhā

Other related names

• Likhita, attributed name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957972673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801671439
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797267

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is for private reflection on religious law (smṛti). Concerns the spread of "dharmaśāsa" or "command of dharma," with offerings to all the gods (vaiśvadeva), with recitation (japa), rites of the āhitāgni (sacrificer), procuring personal gain, and other things. Text opens with a mantra dedicated to the deity Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1818 (1761) (f. 2r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Dharma--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu law
• Sanskrit literature
• Recitations--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Sacrifice--Hinduism

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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