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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958497893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816100911
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849789

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Summary

Manuscript is a short manual outlining ceremonies for digging ground for a new house, prescribing the setting up and worship of various images of gods, and especially for appeasing (śanti) evils and calamities that might befall the occupants of the house. Manuscript lacks beginning.

Notes

• Title manuscript wrapping; alternate title Vāstupūjā from colophon (f. 8v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Housing--India--Religious aspects
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Idols and images--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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