Maraṇavidhi, circa 1700-1850
मरणविधि, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be used by priests, which outlines the rules and regulations (religious law) for a variety of different rites connected with death and dying, including the death of a pregnant woman and rites prescribed for a widow wishing to burn herself alive on a funeral pyre (sahagamanavidhi).
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Hindu women
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu law
- Sati
- Widows (Hindu law)
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 27 cm
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left verso.
- Colophon: iti garbhiṇayādi maraṇavidhi (f. 3v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Formerly housed with item 173 and item 175.
- Non-Latin script record.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ds92
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 174
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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