Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Aṣṭaka 3.

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vedic literature.
Prajāpati (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgari)

Summary:

Early sacrificial Vedic text containing formative myths of creation about the Vedic god Prajāpati, instructions for the sacrifice of Soma, offerings to Vedic gods, etc; lacks end.

Notes:

Title from section colophon (f. 21v).
Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
Explicit: aveti / rundhe / etāvat / vai / puruṣam / paritaḥ / tat / eva / aveti / ruṃdhe / atasya / tvā / vyomana iti vi ' omane / iti / āha / iyam / vai / atasya / vyometi vi ' ' aum / imāṃ / eva / a (f. 54v).
Mistakes blacked out or covered over in yellow; some marginal corrections and additions in red; accented in red throughout; significant symbols, words, and phrases, highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with red vertical lines or red vertical patterns.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Gagārāma of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī, f. 1r).

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 81 (UP8).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 8.

Contributor:

Gagārāma, former owner.

OCLC:

155918860