Details

Subjects:

Recitations.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Recitations -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Śrīdevayājñika, son of Prajāpati.

Summary:

Manuscript comprises a set of rules and instructions for priests performing rites of worship, especially the recitation of prayers, dedicated to the Hindu deity Rudra. Front folio contains a list of works in the same genre (f. 1r), possibly outlining the contents of a larger manuscript or small library.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23v).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrītrirāgnivin mahāyājñikaśrīprajāpatisutayājñikaśrīśrīdevakṛtau mahārudrajapavidhānaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // saṃvat 1699 // likhapitasidaṃ kāśyāṃ nīlakaṃṭhatanūjena (f. 23v).
Dated saṃvat 1699 (1642) (f. 23v).
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.
Scribe is Nīlakaṃṭhatanūja who lived in Vārāṇasī (f. 23v).
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 3339 (UP 142).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 142

Contributor:

Nīlakaṇṭhatanūja, scribe.

OCLC:

819403430