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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800385207
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794405

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Summary

Text describing rules and rites to be followed for offering of light (dīpadāna) during religious ceremonies. Includes a collection of various mantras to be used in recitation, as well as the prescription of homa rites (fire sacrifice), and is particularly concerned with the veneration of the legendary warrior, the one-thousand-armed Kartavīryārjuna.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated [i], 1-11, upper right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 416, and Item 417.
   
• Gathered bifolia with vertical center fold.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Religion and law--India
• Light--Religious aspects
• Homa (Rite)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu mythology

Genres

• Prayers
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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