Amāvāsyādarśaśrāddha, circa 1700-1850
अमावास्यादर्शश्राद्ध, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for the performance of death rites during the first day of the new moon cycle.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies
- Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts
- Hinduism -- Rituals
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu law
- Dharma
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 16 cm
- Notes
- Title from the opening text of the manuscript (f. 1r, line 7).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34x54g87
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1445
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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