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

Title

Other related names

• Viṭhala, NaulI, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968105003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/931706295
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6810500

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual or handbook on religious law (dharma) to be consulted by a priest, outlining rules (religious laws) for the performance of fire sacrifices and prayers offered to the planets.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 24v).
   
• Written in 7-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers, syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black or red line. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insects.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by NaulI Viṭhala (f. 24v).
   

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Planets
• Hindu astrology

Genres

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

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