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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958140403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/807974351
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5814040

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Summary

The small single-folio manuscript had been folded into a pocket-sized text, which could be easily transported on one's person. Manuscript describes funeral rites to be performed in the city of Vārāṇasī at the Kapiladhārā pilgrimage site (tīrtha) sacred to the Hindu deity Śiva, one of the cities oldest sacred spots, mentioned as early as the Mahābhārata.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 22 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Funeral rites and ceremonies--India
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Sacred space--India
• Death--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

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