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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809548528
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821381

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Summary

Small manuscript for personal use containing observances and vows (vrata) related to the veneration worship (pūjā) of the sun (āditya another name for the Vedic deity Sūrya). Vows to be performed on the first Sunday during the month of Āśvina (September-October).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title ādityavratakathā from colophon (f. 7 recto).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, lower right recto and verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Sūrya (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

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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