Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Bulls -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa (f. 10v).

Summary:

Manuscript used in funeral rites, a rite for releasing a young bull of varying colors.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrāmeśvarabhaṭṭasutanārāyaṇabhaṭṭakṛtavṛṣotsargapaddhatirāśvatnāyānānāṃ // chachachachaḥ // saṃvat 1871 bhādrapadavadya 2 idaṃ pustakaṃ purāṇikopanāmakarāpūbhaṭṭena likhāpitaṃ (f. 10v).
Dated saṃvat 1871 (Thursday, 1 September 1814 A.D.) (f. 10v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; date and attribution of scribe written in a second hand.
Scribe is Bāpūbhaṭṭa Purāṇika (f. 10v).
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 3263 (UP 110).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 110

Contributor:

Purāṇika, Bāpūbhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

813298511