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

Title

Other related names

• Madhyenistale, Sarvottama (Son of Viśvanāthabhaṭṭa), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958496903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816118446
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849690

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of instructional manual for priests performing bathing rites and prayers in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center of Prayāga (modern-day Allahabad).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10v).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1752 (1695) (f. 10v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--Early works to 1800
• Bathing customs--India--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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