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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958942663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826015100
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5894266

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook about the rules that regulate the dharma of and daily rites and ceremonies to be performed by low-caste workers (śūdras).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8r).
   
• Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and colophon in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Shudras
• Caste--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Dharma

Genres

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

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