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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820003718
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864456

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of handbook or manual to be used by a priest or family member; it prescribes and outlines rules (religious laws) for performing protective rites to avoid death if a birth occurs when the moon enters a lunar station comprising only one star. This is considered inauspicious and needs to be corrected through the prescribed rites.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 12 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right recto and verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Hindu astronomy
• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Childbirth--Religious aspects--Hinduism

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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