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Title

Cāturmāsprāyaṣcitta
दर्शपूर्णमासप्रायश्चित्त

Authors

• Baudhāyana

Other related names

• Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa (Son of Rāma Bhaṭṭa), scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1277
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963758293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905606028
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6375829

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 colophon (f. 57r); alternate title Prāyaścittapradīpa from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Darśapūrṇamāsaprāyaścitta supplied by cataloger.
   
• Date śaka 1655 (1733) (f. 57r).
   
• Scribe is Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa, son of Rāma Bhaṭṭa (f. 57r).
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 57 leaves foliated 1-57, 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; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (57 leaves) : 11 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti cāturmāsprāyaṣcittaṃ // (f. 57r).

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduisum--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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