Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Āṣṭaka 1.

Other Title:

Prathamāṣṭakapadāni.

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic ritual text containing early examples of Hindu mythology and the procedures for building a great fire altar, animal sacrifices, and other kinds of rituals; words are parsed throughout the manuscript without the use of sandhi.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Prathamāṣṭakapadāni from colophon (f. 104v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
104 leaves foliated 1-104, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prathamāṣṭakapadāni samāptāni // nārāyaṇagālanekarasyedaṃ pustakaṃ // (f. 104v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents given in red; decorative floral border on front cover (f. 1r).
May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 2, Item 3, and Item 6.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Nārāyaṇa Gālane, likely from the Nāsik district in Maharashtra.

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 78 (UP 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 5

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa Gālane, former owner.

OCLC:

773057573