Details

Other Title:

Agnīdhraprayoga.

Subjects:

Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic supplementary text to help the priest who kindles the fire (the Āgnīdhra) during the full and new moon sacrifices; second text Pātrāsādana for a hotṛ priest setting down the vessel holding a portion of a sacrifice.

Contents:

Darśapūrṇamāsāgnīdhra
Pātrāsādana (incomplete).

Notes:

Title from title page; alternate title Āgnīdhraprayoga from rubric (f. 1r) and colophon (f. 6v); title of second work Pātrāsādana from rubric (f. 9v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity āgnīdhraḥ prayogaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 9v).
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 in red throughout; second text Pātrāsādana is written in another hand (f. 9v).
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 268 (UP 76).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 76

Contains:

Pātrāsādana.

OCLC:

756871200