Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu altars.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Commentaries.
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 manual of ritual instructions for building the fire altar during a Śrauta sacrifice.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 100v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
100 leaves foliated 1-100, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bodhāyanacayanaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃvat 1873 kārtikaśuklapakṣe 4 (f. 100v).
Dated saṃvat 1873 (Friday, 25 October 1816) (f. 100v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 228 (UP 117).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 117

OCLC:

813833051