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Kokilasmṛti, circa 1700-1850.
कोकिलस्मृति
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Kokila.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 29 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1602
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Short treatise and manual on Hindu law (dharma) regarding family responsibilities, especially piṇḍa (rice ball) ritual offerings in funeral rites.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 16v).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti kokilasmṛtiḥ // (f. 16v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple 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 2843 (UP 1602).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1602.
- OCLC:
- 927444948
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