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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967589233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927414844
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6758923

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Summary

Manuscript is a compendium of various rites and observances (vratas) and is a manual for those performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year and includes rites of fasting (vrata), bathing, and others. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (Part 1, f. 1-3).

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 31 leaves foliated 1-3, 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1752 (1830) (f. 28v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   
• Blue, European-made paper with the watermark Leonard M. on several folios.
   

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Subjects topical

• Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Bathing customs--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Vratas
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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