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Title

Agnihotrahomaprāyaścita
अग्निहोत्रहोमप्रायश्चित्त

Authors

• Raghunātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1305
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963979243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908392243
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6397924

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manual of instructions, rules, and regulations (dharma, Hindu law) for a Hotṛ priest to perform fire rites (homa) and for correcting any transgressions or errors made.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 59 leaves foliated 1-59, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases written in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (59 leaves) : 12 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity evaṃ raghunāthena prāyaścitakutūhale nirmite nitate haumyaprāyaścitavivecanaṃ sarvātmāśrīrāmalihitātabhdaktanārāyaṇa atrī // (f. 59r).

Subjects topical

• Homa (Rite)
• Fire--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

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