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Tṛcapaddhati, after 1831.
तृचपद्धति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1332
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Sūrya (Hindu deity).
- Sūrya.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- treatises
- manuals (instructional materials)
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1332
- Place of Publication:
- after 1831.
- after १८३१
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual of rites, including rules, dharma, and laws, for use by a priest performing praises and oblations to the sun (the Hindu deity Sūrya); performed in the tṛca meter (triplets) typically used in stotra (praise) literature.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 16r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti tṛcapaddhatiḥ / (f. 16r).
- Date based on watermark; typically manuscripts are written within a few years of the paper's production.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Watermarks of a seal, partial name of a paper company, and the date 1831.
- 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 3376 (UP 1332).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1332.
- OCLC:
- 908392056
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