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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967475563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/926052281
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6747556

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Summary

Part of a manual or guide giving an overview of the regulations (Hindu laws) governing the performance of the sacred thread ceremony according to Vedic tradition; contains mantras (words and phrases of power) for recitation during the thread ceremony.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Yajñopavītamantra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: śrīgaṇeṣāyanamaḥ // adyetyadi - śrīparameśvaraprItyarthaṃ yajñopavītasaskāraṃka (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers highlighted in red throughout.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Hindu mantras
• Sacred thread ceremony
• 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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