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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