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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa (Son of Nīlakaṇṭha)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964129313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910640667
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6412931

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) connected to a special fast (vrata) for women who desire to avoid widowhood. Selection from a larger compendium of observances (vratas) thought to be drawn primarily from the Skanda Purāṇa, a text that the manuscript refers to (f. 29v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 29r); alternate title Vaṭasāvitrivṛta from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Widows--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Vratas
• 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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