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

Title

Other related names

• Jñodekhāśa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959055103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/827977487
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5905510

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for private or public ceremonies as a kind of manual for priests or senior householders to guide them in the rules and regulations governing funeral rites as well as some discussion about the spirits of the dead.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1814 (1754) (f. 5r)
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with a quadruple black line.
   
• Scribe is Jñodekhāśa (f. 5r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Funeral rites and ceremonies--India
• Dharma
• Spirits--Religious aspects

Genres

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

Licenses

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