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Śūdrāhnika, circa 1700-1850.
शूद्राह्निक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 269
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Shudras.
- Caste--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Caste.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 269
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook about the rules that regulate the dharma of and daily rites and ceremonies to be performed by low-caste workers (śūdras).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 8r).
- Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śudradharmatatve śūdrāhnikaṃ (f. 8r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and colophon in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- 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 3067 (UP 269).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 269
- OCLC:
- 826008790
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