Caulaprayoga, circa 1700-1850
चौलप्रयोग, १७००-१८५०

Description
Text in the genre of dharmaśāstra. Manuscript is a manual on domestic rites and rituals related to ritual hair cutting (caula); contains Vedic mantras for recitation, along with red accents. Lacks ending.
Form
manuscripts (documents)
manuals (instructional materials)
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1700
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Dharma
Hindu law
Tonsure -- Hinduism
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
Notes
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; accents for aid with Vedic recitations in red.
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 2726
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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