Details

Other Title:

Smṛtisāratattvam.

Subjects:

Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Murder -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu women.
Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh.
Rites and ceremonies.
Bangladesh.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manual that is a collection of rites and their associated rules and laws (dharma), especially those rites for overcoming mistakes and negative actions performed in daily life as well as during rituals, called prāyaścitta. Rites are especially focused on killing and include those performed for having killed or murdered a Brahman, a Kṣatriya, a cow, a woman, as well as a woman who has had an abortion, and others.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 6 lines per folio.
160 leaves foliated [i], 1-86, 86-101, [i], 102-155, [156], [i], middle right verso; image for folio 131r missing, but is in the original manuscript.
Title from colophon (f. 155r); alternate title Smṛtisāratattvam written on cover notes.
Mistakes covered over in red or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 48 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Two covers made of some kind of modern particle board.

OCLC:

914165726