Manuscript is a compendium of rites of worship, laid out in detail to be performed for the purposes of purification. Includes procedures for worshiping the Hindu deity with the elephant head, Gaṇeśa, bathing rites, sipping water from the hand, lights, and thread ceremony of initiation, among others. Manuscript is incomplete; it lacks a beginning.
Manuals (instructional materials); Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature
Physical Description:
1 item (7 leaves) : paper; 11 x 25 cm
Geographic Subject:
India
Rights:
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Notes:
Title from margin abbreviations throughout (f. 14v-20r).; Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.; 7 leaves foliated 14-20, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: svasti śrīvikrarmo[?]ka saṃvat 1903 candrādāśvinakṛṣṇadvitīyāyāṃ bhaume likhitam // śrīrāmacaṃdrāyanamaḥ (f. 20r).; Dated saṃvat 1903 (1846) (f. 20r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
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