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Cāturmāsprāyaṣcitta, 1733.
दर्शपूर्णमासप्रायश्चित्त
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Baudhāyana.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Seasons--Religious aspects.
- Ancestor worship--Hinduism.
- Dharma.
- Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.
- Purity, Ritual--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Purity, Ritual.
- Dharma--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law.
- Ancestor worship--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Ancestor worship.
- Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduisum--Early works to 1800.
- Seasons.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (57 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 27 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1277
- Other Title:
- Darśapūrṇamāsaprāyaścitta.
- Prāyaścittapradīpa.
- Place of Publication:
- 1733.
- १७३३.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript employed as a manual for priests in a private or public setting for consultation during rites and ceremonies performed during full and new moon sacrifices. Text outlines procedures (religious law) for the proper performance of atonement rites and may be linked to the performance of rites at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 57r); alternate title Prāyaścittapradīpa from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Darśapūrṇamāsaprāyaścitta supplied by cataloger.
- Date śaka 1655 (1733) (f. 57r).
- Scribe is Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa, son of Rāma Bhaṭṭa (f. 57r).
- Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
- 57 leaves foliated 1-57, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti cāturmāsprāyaṣcittaṃ // (f. 57r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- 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 3150 (UP 1277).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1277.
- OCLC:
- 905606029
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