Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Seasons -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private or public use and consultation in rites and ceremonies for a set of three sacrifices performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year. Text includes rites for venerating one's ancestors and for purification of the sacrificer. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 48v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
48 leaves foliated 1-48, middle right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 279 (UP 318).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 318

OCLC:

809612400