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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5831945
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5831945

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Summary

Jaina manuscript for private use, recitation, and reflection, dedicated to removing karmic sin and wrong-doing, as defined by Jaina tradition, such as harming other living beings. Text also contains a praise of the Jaina Tīrthaṅkaras. Manuscript is incomplete, containing about only half of the known sūtras in this work.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; red lines mark verses throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Provenance

• Purchased in 1960, possibly from Gujarat as notes on wrapper in Gujarati script.
   

Subjects topical

• Jainism
• Tīrthaṅkaras
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sin--Jainism
• Separation from sin--Jainism
• Karma
• Jainism--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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