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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970786743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956737657
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078674

Publisher

Language

Summary

Canonical Hindu text deals with symbolic interpretation of the Vedic sacrifice and functions as an ancient commentary on Vedic hymns and as a ritual manual.

Notes

• Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Āraṇa from cover page (f. 1r); second alternate title Pañcamāraṇyaka supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 39 leaves foliated 1-39, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti tṛtīyāraṇyakasamāptaṃ // (f. 39r).
   
• 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 red line.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorative border, f. 1r