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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964061883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909418605
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6406188

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Summary

Manual with related laws and rules of dharma for Vedic rites and ceremonies for building a brick altar in the form of a falcon or bird.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-3, [4], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ / śyenacitaṃ cinvītasuvargakāma iti vijñāyate (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu altars
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Birds--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• 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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