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

Title

Authors

• Darmeśvara (Son of Harihara)

Other related names

• Nārāyaṇa (Son of Nīlakaṇṭha), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958644663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820003785
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864466

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of guide or manual to be used by a priest for consultation during the performance of rites and rituals of atonement as well as for taking on observances (vratagrahaṇa).

Notes

• Scribe is Nārāyaṇa, son of Nīlakaṇṭha, who lived in Vārāṇasī.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 5v); alternate title, Prāyaścittagrahaṇaprakāra, from incipit.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Atonement (Hinduism)--Early works to 1800
• Vratas--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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