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Title

Daśapūrṇamāsaprāyaścitta
दशपूर्णमासप्रायश्चित्त

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 124
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958498093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816100867
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849809

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript employed as a manual for priests in a private or public setting for consultation during rites and ceremonies performed during full and new moon sacrifices. Text outlines procedures (religious law) for the proper performance of atonement rites and may be linked to the performance of rites at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Cāturmāsya from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 52 leaves foliated 1-51, [52], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout half of manuscript (f. 1v-27r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (52 leaves) : 10 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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