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Yajñopavītavidhi, circa 1700-1850.
यज्ञोपवीतविधि
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred thread ceremony.
- Hindu mantras.
- 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 (4 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1367
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a manual or guide giving an overview of the regulations (Hindu laws) governing the performance of the sacred thread ceremony according to Vedic tradition.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 13 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 3228 (UP 1367).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1367.
- OCLC:
- 909419896
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