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

Title

Authors

• Raghava

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958976993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826721671
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5897699

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guide outlining the rules and regulations (Hindu laws) governing rites and ceremonies associated with various kinds of observances (vrata). Daily rites and prayers related to specific lunar days (tithi) to achieve various results such as removing inauspicious aspects in one's life are mentioned.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 37v-38r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 39 leaves foliated [i], 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1748 (1826) (f. 38r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Vratas

Genres

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

Licenses

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