Details

Other Title:

Kokilahotra.

Subjects:

Animal sacrifice.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu priests.
Animal sacrifice -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used as a manual for a hotṛ priest performing an early morning fire sacrifice that involves the sacrifice of animals (paśu).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Kokilahotra supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: sāmāptā kaukilī // cha // cha // idaṃ pustakaṃ raghunāthabhaṭṭa ayācitānāṃ (f. 8v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with single black line.
Scribe is
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa (f. 8v).

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 3360 (UP 119).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 119

Contributor:

Bhaṭṭa, Raghunātha, former owner.

OCLC:

813837588