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

Title

Authors

• Manava

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962595513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889891073
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259551

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic work, thought to be derived from the Mānavagṛhyasūtra (1.4.4.8), a work on domestic rites attributed to the ancient author Manava, but presented as a upaniṣad, dealing with initiate groups (svaśākha) associated with the Ṛgveda and rites of initiation/ordination.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added with red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Initiation rites--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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