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

Title

Authors

• Baudhāyana

Other related names

• Sadāśiva (Son of Kāśinātha), associated name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963919143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907815958
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6391914

Publisher

Language

Summary

Short excerpt from a larger compilation attributed to Baudhāyana and is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, 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.
   
• Manuscript is part of a group of manuscripts written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva, along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1276, Item 1279, Item 1280, Item 1281, Item 1282, Item 1283, Item 1284, Item 1285, Item 1287, Item 1288, Item 1289, Item 1292, Item 1293, Item 1294, Item 1295, Item 1296, Item 1297, Item 1298, Item 1299, and Item 1300. Although no scribe is named, the manuscript is written on the same paper, in the same style, and on the same general subject (performing Vedic rites and ceremonies) as the other manuscripts in the group.
   
• Written between 1805 and 1814, based on dates from other manuscripts written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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