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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963950243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908167479
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6395024

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Summary

Manual, including laws, regulations, and guidelines, for various officiating priests (adhvara) performing the Vedic rites of the Agniṣṭoma sacrifice, including parts for recitation. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from note on cover page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 17 leaves foliated 1-14, 14-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ // goviṃdaśeṣasudhiyāśeṣayajn̄e śasūnunā / (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; significant phrases or numbers highlighted in red; metrical accents to aid in recitation in red throughout most of the manuscript.
   

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Subjects topical

• 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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