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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964129213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910638592
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6412921

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Summary

Short manual outlining ceremonies, along with rules and laws (dharma), for digging ground for a new house, prescribing various rites in honor of different Vedic gods.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Explicit: vāstupuruṣaṃ / praṇamyaprārthayet (f. 8v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins.
   

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Subjects topical

• Gods, Vedic
• Dwellings--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• 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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