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Title

Saṃnyāsapaddhati
संन्यासपद्धति

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 166
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819507086
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861720

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a manual for consultation by priests, kings, or other Hindus undertaking various religious rites and observances. Text opens with reference to undertaking the religious path of renunciation (saṃnyāsa), typically the last of the four stages of life (āśramas), and contains a section on the veneration of ancestors (śraddha rites), as well as a collection of mantras for use in recitation and prayer.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 5-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 47 leaves foliated 1-47, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: viduṣām pratisaṃnyāsaṃ kartum brahmānandīyapaddhatyanusṛtyaprayogamātrā ucyate // (f. 1v).
   
• 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 double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (47 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Asceticism--Hinduism
• Hindu mantras
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism

Genres

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

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