Details

Subjects:

Libations.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Libations -- India.
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual for use by priests or householders performing different kinds of rites. The first is called Vaiśvadevavidhi and consists of offerings to various Hindu deities; the second is called Nityaśraddhavidhi and consists of offerings to one's ancestors. Text contains a collection of various mantras to various deities to be recited during the various rites. There is a diagram with 23 numbered mantras written in red ink (f. 3v).

Contents:

(Part 1) Vaiśvadevavidhi
(Part 2) Nityaśraddhavidhi.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Śrāddhavidhi from colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nityaśrāddhaṃ sampūrṇam / vedoktaśāntikādhyā / tye 1yaṃ paṭhet (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Viṣṇudatta Lohanī (f. 6v).

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 3275 (UP 164).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 164

Contributor:

Lohanī, Viṣṇudatta, former owner.

OCLC:

819410677