Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Late Vedic, supplemental ritual text, instructions for the head priest to perform the full and new moon ceremonies; blessing to Śiva on title page (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon; alternate titles Brahmatvaprayoga from front and back title pages (f. 1r, 4v) and the rubric (f. 1v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti darśapūrṇamāsau brahmatva prayogaḥ // (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents in red; decorative border on title page (f. 1r).
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 291 (UP 77).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 77

OCLC:

756872248