Details

Other Title:

Trikālasaṃdhyātarpaṇa.

Subjects:

Noon.
Morning customs.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Morning customs -- Religious aspects.
Noon -- Religious aspects.
Night -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for priests or householders outlining the performance of daily rites of transition (at waking, before noon meal, and before sleep), containing a selection of hymns (some drawn from Vedic sources such as the Gāyatrī mantra) to be recited along with a set of observances.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v); alternate title Trikālasaṃdhyā supplied by cataloger.
Written in 15-18 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti gāyatrīvidhi // trikālasaṃdhyātarpaṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 6r).
Dated saṃvat 1834 (1787) (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; vertical margins marked with double black 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 3049 (UP 163).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 163

OCLC:

819410667