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

Title

Authors

• Baudhāyana

Other related names

• Abhayankara, Gajanbhaṭa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644303503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820005076
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864430

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual for consultation by hotṛ priests, outlining the rules and laws about performing rites of sacrifice performed at the beginning of the change of the seasons.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 20r).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Gajanbhaṭa Abhayankara (f. 20r).
   
• Dated śaka 1730 (1818) (f. 20r).
   
• 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 red line; red accents added throughout. Decorative cross-hatched and floral border in red ink on front and back covers (f. 1r and f. 20v).
   
• European paper with watermarks.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu priests
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Hindu law

Genres

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

Licenses

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