Sthālīpāka, circa 1700-1850; स्थालीपाक,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is a guide or manual to be used by a priest or householder making offerings of rice or barley as part of a Vedic fire sacrifice.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts; Hinduism -- Rituals; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu law; Dharma; Rice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (11 leaves) : paper; 11 x 22 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 9 lines per leaf.; 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: anena darśapūrṇasthālīpākena yājñabhoktābhagavān agnirūpīpara[me]śvaraḥ prīyatāṃ namama // // śrīrāmārpaṇam astu // (f. 11v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents for recitation in red through part of manuscript.; Written on blue European paper.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts