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Śrāddhacandrikānukramaṇikā, circa 1700-1850. = श्राद्धचन्द्रिकानुक्रमणिका, १७००-१८५०.

Author/Creator:
Vaidyanātha (Son of Divākara)
Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (138 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 24 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 261
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Form/Genre:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Manuscript is used for consultation by priests and senior household members and is a collection of rules and regulations (Hindu laws, dharma) governing observance of twelve days of funeral rites (śrāddha).
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 37v-38r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
139 leaves foliated [i], 1-138, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdivākarātmajavaijanāthaviracitāśrāddhacaṃdrikānukramaṇikāsamāptā // śubham astu // śrīrastu // vācitāvijayībha- (f. 137v-138r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical.
Contents are on a bifolium at beginning of manuscripts with three columns marks with four double black lines (f. i).
Non-Latin script record.
Cited in:
Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3265 (UP 261).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 261
OCLC:
827598845