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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964092513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910183213
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6409251

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for use by a priest or family member making offerings of rice balls (piṇḍa) to deceased ancestors.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, 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.
   
• Partial watermark, possibly part of a coat of arms that looks like a wing.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Death--India--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Ancestor worship--India
• 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

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