Śrāddhakalpa, circa 1800-1850
श्राद्धकल्प, १८००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript is a kind of guide for choosing appropriate priests for presiding over funeral ceremonies.
- Creator
- Kāśināthaśāhāstrina (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1800
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu priests
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 9r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrāddhakalpanāsamāptā taiṣemāseśūklapakṣepaurṇamādine samāptājātā // idaṃ pustakaṃ kāśināthaśāhāstrinenety upanāmakasya vatarte (f. 9r).
- Scribe is Kāśināthaśāhāstrina (f. 9r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- European stock of paper with watermarks having "Ben[i]to Picardo" on several folios, likely from the early 19th century.
- Non-Latin script record.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 169
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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