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Smārtaprāyaścitta, circa 1700-1850.
स्मार्तप्रायश्चित्त
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bhaṭṭa, Divākara.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Atonement (Hinduism).
- Sin--Hinduism.
- Sin.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (26 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 31 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1626
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a treatise and manual for performing expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta) and the proper rites and rituals, such as fire sacrifice, to achieve these goals (such as the removal of sin or pāpa).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 26r).
- Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
- 26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti smārttaprāyaścittāni likhittāni // (f. 26r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Watermark of a fleur-de-lis.
- 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 3145 (UP 1626).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1626.
- OCLC:
- 929212444
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