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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963978983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908391972
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6397898

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Summary

Manual for performing rites related to the Vedic fire sacrifice, including the associated, rules, dharma, and laws, for use by a priest. Work is a prayaścita, a name also referring to the rite meant to help purify someone after making a miscalculation or other incursion.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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