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

Title

Other related names

• Rāmaśarman, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819403441
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860885

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript employed by a priest or family member as a manual or handbook on funeral rites and prayers. Manuscript is incomplete with only the beginning and end.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 21v).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-2, 21, lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1879 mārgaśīrṣa kṛṣṇapakṣa 7 (Thursday, 5 December 1822 A.D.) (f. 21v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; many corrections and additions in margins; text is accented in red(f. 1-2).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   
• Scribe is Rāmaśarman (f. 21v).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Funeral rites and ceremonies--Religious aspects
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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