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

Title

Authors

• Govinda Daivajña Garuḍa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959184773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830002919
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5918477

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual outlining the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing the performance of the opening of the offering of soma or fruit during a Vedic Agniṣṭoma sacrifice. Last part of the text, the Āgrayaṇanirṇaya, outlines the completion of the rite.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 14v-15r); secondary title Āgrayaṇanirṇaya from final colophon.
   
• Written in 1 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-15, [16], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīgaruḍopanāmakagovindadaivajñaviracitāgrapaṇamaṃjūpāsamāptā // śrīgurucaraṇaujayataḥ // śake 1802 vikramābde āśvīnakṛṣṇapakṣe 2 ṣudhau likhite 'yaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śrī // (f. 14v-15r).
   
• Dated śaka 1802 (1880) (f. 15r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Soma
• Homa (Rite)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu priests

Genres

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

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