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

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Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959178913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/829951417
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5917891

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used as a kind of manual for consultation and application by a priest or householder wanting understand the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) related to rites and ceremonies for the purification of the body through the removal of impurities. Manuscript has both a root text (mūla) and a commentary (bhāṣya or ṭīkā). The commentary follows consecutively after each verse of the root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 22v).
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Skin of an entire snake enclosed in manuscript (f. 9-10).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Snakeskin recto — Whole snakeskin recto
• Snakeskin verso — Whole snakeskin verso