Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic text, late ritual manual for new and full moon days, possibly based on Baudāyana.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. i recto) and colophon (f. 58r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
60 leaves foliated [i] 1-60, upper left and lower right verso, last leaf double foliated (f. 59-60).
Colophon: saṃtiṣṭate darśapūrṇamāsaprayogaḥ // saṃvat 1877 śake 1742 kharanāmasaṃvatsare uttarāyaṇegrīṣma[?]tau āṣādhamāse śuklapakṣe tithau pratipadāyāṃ bhaumavāsare taddinajośi[?]upanāmabālakṛṣṇe (f. 58r).
Dated saṃvat 1877 śaka 1742 (1819) in the Grīṣma season (early Summer) in the bright half of the month of Āṣādha (June-July) on Bhaumavāsara (Tuesday) (f. 58r).
Scribe is Bāla Kṛṣṇa (f. 58r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line, accents indicated in red throughout.
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 286 (UP 69).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 69

Contributor:

Bāla Kṛṣṇa, scribe.

OCLC:

755080331