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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975805563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974381877
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7580556

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Summary

Manual of Hindu laws (dharma), rites, and ceremonies surrounding gift giving, especially the ceremony for giving a hundred cows to a Brahman (Gośata).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Mahādānaprayoga supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on final folio. Two folios are from different kinds of paper.
   

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Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Cows--Religious aspects--Hinduism

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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