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Vaiśvadeva, circa 1700-1850.
वैश्वदेव
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1462
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Homa (Rite).
- Agnihotra (Hindu rite).
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 16 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1462
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Guide with associated rules and laws of dharma for rites, prayers, and mantras for recitation and to perform offerings and sacrifice to the Vedic gods; connected to or once part of the Agnihotra (fire sacrifice) and homa rites; the rites are identical to the Devayajña. Manuscript lacks an ending.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout; 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 3484 (UP 1462).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1462.
- OCLC:
- 910914620
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