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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958065963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/804810231
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5806596

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use during the performance of rites celebrating the dark half of the month of Vaiśākha (April/May). Performed especially by women who wish to protect themselves against becoming widows. Offerings and prayers are directed towards the sun (sāvitrī). Lacks a beginning.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 2-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical and horizontal margins marked with double red line. Formerly housed with Item 440.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu mythology
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu women--Religious life

Genres

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

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