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Mahādāna, circa 1700-1850.
महिषीदान
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2733
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Gifts.
- Cows--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Cows.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2733
- Other Title:
- Mahādānaprayoga
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual of Hindu laws (dharma), rites, and ceremonies surrounding gift giving, especially the ceremony for giving a hundred cows to a Brahman (Gośata).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Mahādānaprayoga supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on final folio. Two folios are from different kinds of paper.
- 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 3126 (UP 2733).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2733.
- OCLC:
- 974381877
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