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

Title

Other related names

• Rālela, Rāmacandra, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958682963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820723209
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5868296

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guide for use by a hotṛ priest giving instructions on correct procedures for the performance of ceremonies at the new and full moons. There is a secondary text dealing with mantras dedicated to the Vedic god Agni, named Pathikṛt.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 17v-18r); second title Pathikṛteṣṭimantra from incipit of secondary text (f. 18r).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 21 leaves foliated [i], 1-3, [i], 4-15, [i], 16-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Rāmacandra Rālela (f. 18r).
   

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu priests
• Agni (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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