Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Ānayo vaiśvānarāya

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5404538
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5404538

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Vedic ritual text containing early examples of Hindu mythology and the procedures for building a great fire altar, animal sacrifices, and other kinds of rituals.

Notes

• Title from opening marginal note in red (f. 13r); alternate title Caturthāṣṭaka from back title page (f. 72v).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 58 leaves foliated 13-71, [72], lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1871 (1814) (f. 71v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accented in red throughout.
   
• May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 2, Item 3, and Item 5.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 24 x 11 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: samāptaścaturthāṣṭakaḥ // śrīsāṃbārpaṇamastu // saṃvat 1871 // cha // (f. 71v).

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hinduism--Rituals
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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