Manuscript employed as a manual for priests in a private or public setting for consultation during rites and ceremonies performed during full and new moon sacrifices. Text outlines procedures (religious law) for the proper performance of atonement rites and may be linked to the performance of rites at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year, which include purification and ancestor worship.
Sadāśiva (Son of Kāśinātha), associated name.
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Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Prāyaṣcittavidhi from colophon (f. 27v).; Mistakes blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.; 27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.; Written in 10 lines per leaf.; Written between 1805 and 1814, based on dates from other manuscripts written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva.; Colophon: prāyaṣcittavidhiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 27v).; Manuscript is part of a group of manuscripts written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva, along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1279, Item 1280, Item 1281, Item 1282, Item 1283, Item 1284, Item 1285, Item 1286, Item 1287, Item 1288, Item 1289, Item 1292, Item 1293, Item 1294, Item 1295, Item 1296, Item 1297, Item 1298, Item 1299, and Item 1300. Although no scribe is named, the manuscript is written on the same paper, in the same style, and on the same general subject (performing Vedic rites and ceremonies) as the other manuscripts in the group.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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