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:

Short (laghu) preparatory ritual text for touching parts of the body while reciting mantras to Rudra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso; 4, upper left and lower right recto.
Colophon: iti laghunyāsa samāptaṃ // (f. 4r).
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents in red; floral design on back (f. 4v).
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 4606 (UP 96).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 96

OCLC:

758976684