Details

Other Title:

Baudhāyanadarśapūrṇamāsaprayoga.

Subjects:

Agnihotra (Hindu rite).
Hindu priests.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Moon.
Hinduism.
Satellites -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Proported to be a late Vedic-period ritualist and commentator, circa 5th century B.C., but the writtings attributed to this figure are most likely composed by members of a group of Brahmins known as the Baudhāyanīyas, who lived in North India during that period.

Summary:

Manuscript is a guide or manual for hotṛ priests on how to perform the new and full moon sacrifices as laid out by the Baudhāyanīyas according to their texts dealing with public sacrifice, the Śrauta Sūtras.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
44 leaves foliated 1-44, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: saṃtiṣṭate darśapūrṇamāsaprayogaḥ // (f. 43v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Accents written 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 287 (UP 121).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 121

OCLC:

813837884