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Title

Cāturmāsya
चातुर्मास्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 318
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958224883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809631728
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5822488

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript for private or public use and consultation in rites and ceremonies for a set of three sacrifices performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year. Text includes rites for venerating one's ancestors and for purification of the sacrificer. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 48v).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 48 leaves foliated 1-48, middle 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (48 leaves) : 13 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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