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Māhānyāsa, circa 1700-1850.
माहान्यास
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedas--Recitation.
- Vedas.
- 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 (16 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 16 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1361
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Collection of Vedic mantras drawn from the hymns of the Ṛgveda for use in rites and ceremonies.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 16 leaves foliated 1-16, middle left verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents 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 4525 (UP 1361).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1361.
- OCLC:
- 910182572
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