Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals.
Hinduism -- Customs and practices.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgari)

Summary:

First of 7 types of Vedic sacrifices employing the elixir soma, performed by Brahman priests; contains offerings to Indra and other Vedic deities.

Notes:

Title from Poleman.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
Chant indicated in part in red. Marginal additions and corrections, some lengthy.
55 leaves foliated 1-55, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: tatah udavasānīyāyām udvam śīyam pradhāna yāgakāle gāyet. tṛce udam śīya...ṣih anuṡṫup indrode gāyanti tvā gāyatriṇā arcantya karmakāra 23 iṇāh.

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 262 (UP 52).
Listed in New Catalogus Catalogorum (Madras: University of Madras, 1949), Vol. 1, p. 43A.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 52

OCLC:

155918973