Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook for use by a priest, outlining the rules and laws governing the installation of religious images, inviting the deity (the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa) to reside therein, bathing the image, and other rites; the image to be subsequently worshiped by Hindu adherents.
Text is attributed to a traditional author dated to about the 6th century B.C. with ties to the transmission of the Yajurveda school, though likely a much later, even medieval text, aligning itself with that lineage/school.; Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhā from incipit.; Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktagaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhatiḥ // saṃvat 1839 bhādrapadavadya 8 bhṛgunāre mahādevabhatacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // (f. 2v).; Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 2v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.; Scribe is Mahādevabhaṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 2v), also named in item 178, which was written in the same year.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
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