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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