Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of instructional guide used by priests or family members for the performance of rites and ceremonies dedicated to deceased ancestors.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, 11, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated ś\ake 1720 (1798) (f. 11v).
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 3303 (UP 134).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 134

OCLC:

816118352