Details

Other Title:

Cāturmāsya.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Seasons -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed as a manual for priests in a private or public setting for consultation during rites and ceremonies performed during full and new moon sacrifices. Text outlines procedures (religious law) for the proper performance of atonement rites and may be linked to the performance of rites at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Cāturmāsya from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
52 leaves foliated 1-51, [52], upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout half of manuscript (f. 1v-27r).
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 3157 (UP 124).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 124.

OCLC:

816093786