Bodhāyanacayanaprayoga, 1816
बोधायनचयनप्रयोग, १८१६
- Description
- Manuscript is a manual of ritual instructions for building the fire altar during a Śrauta sacrifice.
- Creator
- Baudhāyana (attributed name)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- commentaries
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1816
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu altars
- Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts
- Hinduism -- Rituals
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (100 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Notes
- Proported to be a late Vedic-period ritualist and commentator, circa 5th century B.C., but the writtings attributed to this figure are most likely composed by members of a group of Brahmins known as the Baudhāyanīyas, who lived in North India during that period.
- Title from colophon (f. 100v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 100 leaves foliated 1-100, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti bodhāyanacayanaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃvat 1873 kārtikaśuklapakṣe 4 (f. 100v).
- Dated saṃvat 1873 (Friday, 25 October 1816) (f. 100v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 117
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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