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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910897605
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415504

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Summary

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for women to honor their husbands by performing rites and observances (vrata) that involve the wrapping of a banyan or vaṭa tree (Ficus benghalensis) at the end of a larger observance and fast and by honoring the Vedic deity Sāvitrī as a form of the Great Goddess (Devi).

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 segments foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso; manuscript is one leaf folded into three segments with the text running sequentially throughout the recto and then sequentially on the 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.
   
• Watermark with the initials E M A in a V shape.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sāvitrī (Hindu deity)
• Vratas
• Hindu women
• Banyan tree--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Tree 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

• Text

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