Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Atharvaveda. Selections.

Other Title:

Kuntāpa.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Section of the Atharvaveda called the Kuntāpa, corresponding to chapters 127-136 of larger work; domestic rituals, hymns, and early mythology.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Kuntāpa from marginal abbreviations, upper left verso.
Written in 11-16 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kuṃtapādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 3v).
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.
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 121 (UP 86).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 86

OCLC:

758845273