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Title

Cāturmāsyaprayoga
चातुर्मास्यप्रयोग

Other related names

• Upāsani, Satyabhāmā, scribe
• Śarmaṇa, Vyaṅkaṭeśa, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 122
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958437683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813837891
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5843768

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript employed as a manual for priests performing rites and ceremonies for a set of three sacrifices performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 74v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 75 leaves foliated 1-74, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 74v); manuscript has what appears to be a "4" written over a "7," but the date could also be saṃvat 1877 (1820).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Accents in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (75 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti cāturmāsya prayogaḥ // saṃvat 18[4]7 kharanāmasaṃvatsare śuciśuklapakṣena vamyāṃtithau maumavāsareṇa lavakṣetre upāsanyupanāmakasatyabhāmayā likhitaṃ // vyaṃkaṭeśaśarmaṇe putrāya idaṃ pustakaṃ dattaṃ (f. 74v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Vyaṅkaṭeśa Śarmaṇa.
   

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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