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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963979213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908392055
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6397921

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Language

Summary

Manual of rites, including rules, dharma, and laws, for use by a priest performing praises and oblations to the sun (the Hindu deity Sūrya); performed in the tṛca meter (triplets) typically used in stotra (praise) literature.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 16r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Date based on watermark; typically manuscripts are written within a few years of the paper's production.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Watermarks of a seal, partial name of a paper company, and the date 1831.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Sūrya (Hindu deity)
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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