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

Title

Other related names

• Bhānudeva, (Son of Narasiṃha), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962533393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888078309
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253339

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a Hindu treatise and manual dealing with various kinds of Vedic ritual sacrifice and their interpretation, sometimes bringing early forms of philosophical exegesis to bear on early rituals.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 21 leaves foliated 1-18, 20-12, 23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1698 (1641) (f. 23r).
   
• Scribe is Bhānudeva, son of Narasiṃha, of the famous pilgrimage center of Vārāṇasī (f. 23r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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