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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958609043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819409815
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860904

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Summary

Manuscript is to be used by a priest or family member performing funeral rites, outlining the correct procedures and religious laws governing offerings to various ancestors (who should be named) to help the deceased on their passage to the afterworld.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 7v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1922 (1865) (f. 7v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• European paper with watermarks.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Hindu law

Genres

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

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