Details

Other Title:

Cayanaprayoga.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual instructions for building the fire altar during a Śrauta sacrifice, attributed to the sage Baudhāyana.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 96r); alternate title from title abbreviation throughout, upper left verso.
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
95 leaves foliated 2-96, upper left and lower right verso; missing first folio.
Colophon: iti bodhāyanaṃ cayanaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 96r).
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 black 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 227 (UP 103).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 103

OCLC:

760179354