Details

Other Title:

Baudhāyanakṛtadarśapaurṇamāsaprayoga.

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:

Author Summary

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); alternate title Baudhāyanakṛtadarśapaurṇamāsaprayoga from colophon (f. 51v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
51 leaves foliated 1-51, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: adṛṣṭārthā // kārttikavadya // 3 // śanivāra // saṃvat // 1875 // śake // 1740 // idaṃ pustakaṃ śrīsāṃbacaraṇarajavyaṃ kaṭarāvamahājanopanāmakena likhitaṃ śubhārthaṃ śrīrastu śloka saṃ 985 śrī // iti baudhāyanakṛtadarśapaurṇamāsapra[yoga] samāptaḥ // (f. 51r-51v).
Dated saṃvat 1875 and śaka 1740 kārttikavadya 3 (Monday, 16 November 1818 A.D.) (f. 51r).
Scribe is Vyaṅkaṭarāva Mahājana (f. 50v).
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.
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 235 (UP 120).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 120

Contributor:

Mahājana, Vyaṅkaṭarāva, scribe.

OCLC:

813838347