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

Title

Authors

• Śrīdevayājñika

Other related names

• Nīlakaṇṭhatanūja, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819406001
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860883

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript comprises a set of rules and instructions for priests performing rites of worship, especially the recitation of prayers, dedicated to the Hindu deity Rudra. Front folio contains a list of works in the same genre (f. 1r), possibly outlining the contents of a larger manuscript or small library.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23v).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1699 (1642) (f. 23v).
   
• 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.
   
• Scribe is Nīlakaṃṭhatanūja who lived in Vārāṇasī (f. 23v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Recitations--Religious aspects

Genres

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

Licenses

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