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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976091463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974797606
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9976091463503681

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Summary

Manuscript is a manual and treatise (containing laws, dharma) for consultation by those undertaking and performing funeral rites, including recitation of Vedic mantras. Lacks end.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line. Metrical accents in red in parts of the text containing Vedic verses.
   

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Subjects topical

• Funeral rites and ceremonies--India
• Dharma
• Hindu law

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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