Vyavasthāsārasaṃgraha circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

[scribe name] (scribe)

Name:

Rāmagovinda Śrammā

Date:

1750

Description:

Manual of specific rites and their associated rules of dharma, such as widow burning (sati), offerings to ancestors, death rites (śrāddha), and many others.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh; Sati; Ancestor worship -- Bangladesh; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh; Dharma; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Ancestor worship; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); manuals (instructional materials); facsimiles (reproductions); Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 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:

Written in 6-7 lines per folio.; 106 leaves foliated [i-ii], 1-2, 1-49, 61-70, [i-ii], 71-85, [i-ii], 86-[110], middle right verso.; Title from incipit of main text (f. 1v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 38 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.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 475