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Yajñopavītadhāraṇa, circa 1700-1850.
यज्ञोपवीतधारण
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1378
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred thread ceremony.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- 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 ; 10 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1378
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual including rules and laws of dharma related to the sacred thread ceremony, a Vedic rite of passage for young boys of the top three castes, allowing them to participate in the performance and reading of Vedic rites and ceremonies.
- Notes:
- Title from text (f. 1r).
- Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out.
- 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 3224 (UP 1378).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1378.
- OCLC:
- 910183253
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