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

Title

Authors

• Āśvalāyana

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968108303503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/931727046
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6810830

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a Hindu law code for performing various ancient rites and ceremonies, including the practices of gifts, pilgrimages, and funerals, from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Funeral rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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