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Title

Prāyaścittenduśekhara
प्रायश्चित्तेन्दुशेखर

Authors

• Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya, -1805

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1631
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967805673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/929951976
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6780567

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a treatise and manual employed for consultation, reflection, and discussion and is a compendium of rites of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta), such as fire sacrifice, to achieve goals such as the removal of sin or pāpa. Table of contents at the end of the manuscript (f. 75r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 75 leaves foliated 1-75, 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 quadruple red line.
   

Extent

1 item (75 leaves) : 11 x 32 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmadnaṃtoṣādhyāya sūnukāśīnāthopādhyāyaviracitaḥ sarvaprāyaścitatatatpratipadaukta prāyaścitādiprayogasārasaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ // śubham astu (f. 75r).

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sin--Hinduism

Genres

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

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