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Title

Authors

• Dinakarabhaṭṭa, fl. 1575-1640

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959026393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/827611710
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5902639

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual of or treatise on proprietary sacrifices and contains the rules and regulations (Hindu laws, Dharma) governing rites to be performed by a priest or senior household member. Helps to rid the home of sickness and bad omens through the propitiation of various Hindu deities.

Notes

• Title from marginal note (f. 2r); alternate title Śāntidyota from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 36 leaves foliated 1-13, 15-37, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Diseases--Religious aspects
• Omens--Religious aspects

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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