Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Rudra (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual text teaching how to touch parts of the body while reciting Vedic mantras to Rudra taken from the Taittirīyasaṃhitā.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Mahānyāsa supplied from colophon (f. 14v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti mahānyāsapustakaṃ likhitaṃ sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkaravāghopanāmakena svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // mi - bhādrapadakṛṣṇe 7 iṃduvāsare sa[ṃ]vat 1871 // patrasaṃkhyā 14 // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇamastu // (f. 14v).
Dated saṃvat 1871 (1814) on Monday the 7th of Bhādrapada (August-September) (f. 14v).
Mistakes covered over in orange or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents given in red.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Written by Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkaravāghopanāmaka (f. 14v) and formerly owned by Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkara (f. 1r), likely the same person.

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 97 (UP 94).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 94

Contributor:

Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkaravāghopanāmaka, scribe.
Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkara, former owner.

OCLC:

758900683