Details

Other Title:

Rudrasnāna.

Subjects:

Āśvalāyanagr̥hyasūtra.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author named in manuscript as Bhaṭṭarāmakr̥ṣṇa (f. 12v).

Summary:

Commentary on ritual, based on the Aśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Rudrasnāna from Poleman.
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated bottom right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaṭṭarāmakr̥ṣṇa[?]vita[?] āśvalāyanagṛhyoktavāstūśāṃtiprayogaḥ // (f. 12v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line; notes referring to provenance and original owner of manuscript in second hand (f. 12v).
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

The manuscript was commissioned in Kāśī (Vārānasi) by Nīlakaṇṭha Tanūja.

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 3240 (UP 71, Part 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 71 (Part 2)

Contributor:

Nīlakaṇṭha Tanūja, former owner.

OCLC:

756044886