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

Title

Authors

• Keśavasvāmin

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958423423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813296641
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5842342

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual and treatment of Vedic fire rites, especially pertaining to rules for preparing the sacrifice for Sāvitra (the sun).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 17v); alternate title Sāvitrāgniprayoga from incipit (f. 1v); second alternate title Prayogasāra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Fire--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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