Saṃkṣiptagosahasrapaddhati, circa 1700-1850; संक्षिप्तगोसहस्रपद्धति,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is an instruction manual (paddhati) for use by priests performing rites and ceremonies, a gift offering of one thousand cows. End of another text in a second scribal hand on the first part of manuscript ending "śunaḥśepo varuṇo gāyatrī // 1 //" (f. 1r).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (10 leaves) : paper; 10 x 24 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).; Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.; 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti saṃkṣiptagosahasrapaddhatiḥ // (f. 10v).; 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 red line.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts