Birchbark manuscript
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Birchbark manuscript volume, or "rcaka", MSB.83. It contains a selection of passages regarding ritual practices including the mathapratisthapana (manual for setting up a school or monastery), ritual inauguration procedures, and the agraharapratistha (manual for inaugurating a Brahmin enclave of houses that have been given by a king). For more information about the item from which this digital content was derived, please visit https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2441382.
Language: Sanskrit
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Birchbark manuscript, folder 7
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Birch bark manuscript, folder 2
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Birchbark manuscript, folder 1
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Birchbark Manuscript Foliation Guide
(Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, 2015-08-19)The numbering system for identifying the digital images of MSB 83 is based on the order in which the manuscript leaves entered the conservation laboratory. Nine nested folios, along with a number of detached leaves associated ...