Maraṇavidhi, circa 1700-1850.
मरणविधि

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu women.

Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Hindu law.

Sati.

Widows (Hindu law).

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 174

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be used by priests, which outlines the rules and regulations (religious law) for a variety of different rites connected with death and dying, including the death of a pregnant woman and rites prescribed for a widow wishing to burn herself alive on a funeral pyre (sahagamanavidhi).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left verso.

Colophon: iti garbhiṇayādi maraṇavidhi (f. 3v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Formerly housed with item 173 and item 175.

Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3018 (UP 174).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 174

OCLC:

819568506