Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed as a manual for priests performing rites and ceremonies for a set of three sacrifices performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 74v).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
75 leaves foliated 1-74, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti cāturmāsya prayogaḥ // saṃvat 18[4]7 kharanāmasaṃvatsare śuciśuklapakṣena vamyāṃtithau maumavāsareṇa lavakṣetre upāsanyupanāmakasatyabhāmayā likhitaṃ // vyaṃkaṭeśaśarmaṇe putrāya idaṃ pustakaṃ dattaṃ (f. 74v).
Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 74v); manuscript has what appears to be a "4" written over a "7," but the date could also be saṃvat 1877 (1820).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Accents in red throughout.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Vyaṅkaṭeśa Śarmaṇa.

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 281 (UP 122).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 122

Contributor:

Upāsani, Satyabhāmā, scribe.
Śarmaṇa, Vyaṅkaṭeśa, former owner.

OCLC:

813838363