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Bhārūṇasāma, circa 1700-1850.
भारूणसाम
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Sūrya (Hindu deity).
- Sūrya.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1303
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Fragment or reference to larger ritual manual (with rules, laws, etc.), with numbers written in red above the verses which are often separated by further numbering in black to aid in the performance and employment of the verses. Verses appear to be from the Ṛgveda, possibly for use in a rite of praise to the Vedic god Sūrya (the sun) or other gods.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 1r).
- Written in 8 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf.
- Colophon: bhārūṇasāmaḥ // (f. 1r).
- 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 67 (UP 1303).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1303.
- OCLC:
- 907934917
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