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Tīrthaśrādhavidhi, circa 1700-1850.
तीर्थश्राधविधि
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 184
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Ancestor worship--Hinduism.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 27 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 184
- Other Title:
- Tīrthaśrādha.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a kind of guide or handbook outlining rules for priests or senior family members to consult while performing funeral or ceremonial rites for ancestors at pilgrimage centers (tīrtha).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger (f. 1v); alternate title Tīrthaśrādha from colophon.
- Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: [iti] tīrthaśrādhaṃ sampūrṇam // (f. 3v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 3269 (UP 184).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 184
- OCLC:
- 820002330
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