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Strīśūdratīrthavidhi, 1814.
श्त्रीशूद्रतीर्थविधि
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1387
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Caste--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Shudras.
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- India.
- Hindu women--Religious life.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1387
- Place of Publication:
- 1814.
- १८१४.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a manual and guide with rules and laws (dharma) related to visiting pilgrimage sites and the benefits related to pilgrimages, including removal of sins, gifts, and liberation. Especially focused on low caste workers (śūdras) and women.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti strīśūdrāṇāṃ tīrthavidhiḥ (f. 4v).
- Dated śaka 1736 (1814) (f. 4v).
- Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 4v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases lightly highlighted in red; 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 3110 (UP 1387).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1387.
- OCLC:
- 909588475
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