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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820002329
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864453

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of guide or handbook outlining rules for priests or senior family members to consult while performing funeral or ceremonial rites for ancestors at pilgrimage centers (tīrtha).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (f. 1v); alternate title Tīrthaśrādha from colophon.
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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