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Title

Kāmyeṣṭi
काम्येष्टि

Authors

• Baudhāyana

Other related names

• Sadāśiva (Son of Kāśinātha), associated name

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1298
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963919173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907818461
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6391917

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Selections from Baudhāyana's Prayogasāra, and is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests; work is especially concerned with rites for the obtainment of desired objects.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 49v).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1735 (1813) (f. 49v).
   
• 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 quadruple red line; borders on title pages marked with double red lines.
   
• 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 1287, Item 1288, Item 1289, Item 1292, Item 1293, Item 1294, Item 1295, Item 1296, Item 1297, 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. The date of the manuscript falls within the dates of the manuscripts known to be written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva.
   

Extent

1 item (50 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktakāmyeṣṭayaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 49v).

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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Decorations

• fol. 41v-42r — Illustration, f. 42r