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

Title

Authors

• Keśavasvāmin

Other related names

• Sadāśiva (Son of Kāśinātha), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963918493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907798058
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6391849

Publisher

Language

Summary

Selections from Baudhāyana's Prayogasāra as compiled by Keśavasvāmin, and is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 13v); alternate title Sāvitrāgniprayoga derived from incipit (Part 2, f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-2, 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 1286, Item 1288, Item 1289, Item 1292, Item 1293, Item 1294, Item 1295, Item 1296, Item 1297, Item 1298, Item 1299, and Item 1300.
   
• Scribe is Sadāśiva, son of Kāśinātha (Part 1, f. 2r).
   
• Dated śaka 1729 (1807) (Part 2, f. 13v).
   
• 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

Support

Colophon

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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• Text

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