Vedic ritual text containing early examples of Hindu mythology and the procedures for building a great fire altar, animal sacrifices, and other kinds of rituals; words are parsed throughout the manuscript without the use of sandhi.
Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Prathamāṣṭakapadāni from colophon (f. 104v).; May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 2, Item 3, and Item 6.; Non-Latin script record.; 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; accents given in red; decorative floral border on front cover (f. 1r).; 104 leaves foliated 1-104, lower right verso.; Colophon: iti prathamāṣṭakapadāni samāptāni // nārāyaṇagālanekarasyedaṃ pustakaṃ // (f. 104v).; Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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