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Brahmakūrca, circa 1700-1850.
ब्रह्मकूर्च
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1345
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Cows--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Cows.
- Ghee.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1345
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual outlining the rules, laws, and regulations around rites of penance that employ the five products and by-products of the cow (milk, manure, and urine, as well as curd and ghee).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2r).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti brahmakucaṃ samāptaḥ // (f. 2r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 3160 (UP 1345).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1345.
- OCLC:
- 908392946
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