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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819407786
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860887

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Summary

Manuscript is a manual used by priests for making water libations in honor of the primordial sages (ṛṣis). Manuscript is a collection of some of the offerings mentioned in the larger work and includes the Kātīyasnānavidhi and Yajñapavītasaṃskāra. The front page contains twenty-five mantras dedicated to the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations throughout manuscript.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right 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 black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rishis
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Worship (Hinduism)
• Water--Religious aspects
• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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