Vyavasthāsārasaṃgraha circa 1750-1899

Name:

Rāmagovinda Śarmaṇa

Date:

1750

Description:

Manual of specific rites and their associated rules of dharma, such as observances during the night of Śiva (Śivaratri), birth predictions, widow burning (satī), offerings to ancestors, and many others.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh; Sati; Ancestor worship -- Bangladesh; Śiva (Hindu deity); Siva (Hindu deity); Ancestor worship; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 leaves) : illustrations

Geographic Subject:

Bangladesh

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

His father's name was Rāmagopāla Cakravartī and his home was in the village of Vāṇicāmata.; Written in 5-7 lines per folio.; 108 leaves foliated [i], 1, 1-13, 15-105, [i-ii], middle right verso; 5 images are missing from the digital copy: recto side for folios 3, 17, 23, 24, and 25, but appear in the original manuscript.; Title from colophon (f. 105v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 11 x 43 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; One cover made of modern particle board..; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 500