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

Title

Other related names

• Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964065613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909586742
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6406561

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a guide or manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) to be used by a priest or householder for reciting mantras (words or phrases of power) while making offerings of rice or barley as part of a Vedic fire sacrifice

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 6-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red and black lines.
   
• Partial watermarks of letters, possibly a C and other letters.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva (f. 15r). This owner is from the village of Gāḍagī (or Gāḍgīlāya), possibly in present day Jarakhand, India, and is written by the same scribe as Item 845, Item 931, Item 932, Item 934, Item 935, and Item 2387.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Rice--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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