Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Kṣetrakhaṇḍa. Mallārīmahātmya. Selections.

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Homa (Rite).
Fire -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Citation indexes.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an index of verses meant to accompany a text called the Homapaddhati, a treatise and manual on different kinds of fire sacrifices (homa). Indicates numbers of verses as well as the names of various gods who impart the knowledge of the rites to the priests.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Mistakes blacked out.
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 1399 (UP 2727).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2727

OCLC:

802809204