Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed by a priest or family member as a manual or handbook on funeral rites and prayers. Manuscript is incomplete with only the beginning and end.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 21v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-2, 21, lower right verso.
Colophon: saṃvat // 1879 // vijayanāmasaṃvatsare // mārgaśīrṣe kṛṣṇapakṣe sapte mīsaumyavāsare // svārthaṃ vāparamārthaṃ ca likhitaṃ rāmaśarmaṇaḥ // (f. 21v).
Dated saṃvat 1879 mārgaśīrṣa kṛṣṇapakṣa 7 (Thursday, 5 December 1822 A.D.) (f. 21v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; many corrections and additions in margins; text is accented in red(f. 1-2).
Non-Latin script record.
Scribe is Rāmaśarman (f. 21v).

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 3300 (UP 141).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 141

Contributor:

Rāmaśarman, active 17th century, scribe.

OCLC:

819406021