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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819546364
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861736

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be used by priests, which outlines the rules and regulations (religious law) for a variety of different rites connected with death and dying, including the death of a pregnant woman and rites prescribed for a widow wishing to burn herself alive on a funeral pyre (sahagamanavidhi).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Formerly housed with item 173 and item 175.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu women
• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Sati
• Widows (Hindu law)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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