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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910899883
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415511

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Language

Summary

Manuscript to be used for private or public consultation, recitation, and prayer; likely taken from a larger compendium compiled from a purāṇic source dealing with festivals, observances (vratas), pūjās (rites of worshiping deities), and mythic origins of these rites. Dedicated to Budha (Mercury), considered the son of the Moon, describing various rites to be performed in honor of this deity (such as bathing, fasting, offerings of milk, and others).

Notes

• Title from final title page (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; floral design a decorative border on final title page (f. 5v).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Puja (Hinduism)
• 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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5v — Floral decoration, f. 5v