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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967782623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/929211835
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6778262

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Summary

Treatise on Hindu laws (dharma) as well as a manual that promotes, describes, and instructs pilgrims on how to perform rites and ceremonies related to visiting the sacred river called Kṛṣṇaveṇī. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Kṛṣṇayātrāni from cover leaf (f. i recto).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated [i], 1-5, 10-12, [13], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• The partially legible signature A. Du--------- is found written in pencil on the opening folio (f. i verso) who could be a former owner of the manuscript.
   

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India

Genres

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

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