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Subjects:

Religion and law.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Religion and law -- India.
Light -- Religious aspects.
Homa (Rite).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text describing rules and rites to be followed for offering of light (dīpadāna) during religious ceremonies. Includes a collection of various mantras to be used in recitation, as well as the prescription of homa rites (fire sacrifice), and is particularly concerned with the veneration of the legendary warrior, the one-thousand-armed Kartavīryārjuna.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated [i], 1-11, upper right verso.
Colophon: iti dīpadānam saṃpūrṇam śubham (f. 11r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 416, and Item 417.
Gathered bifolia with vertical center fold.

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 3123 (UP 415).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 415

OCLC:

800385209