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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820006115
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864450

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guidebook outlining rules and regulations and is meant for consultation by a priest or senior family member during the performance of funeral rites and ceremonies as well as veneration of one's ancestors. Text is dedicated to various Hindu deities, especially to Viṣṇu and the ancestors who have obtained Viṣṇu's heaven. A list of texts related to śrāddha rites and/or related pilgrimage sites (tīrthas) appears in two columns on the final folio (f. 4v) and refers to itself as Śrāddhakrama in its colophon.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4r); second title from secondary colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 183: Śrāddhavidhi are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode