Details

Subjects:

Rishis.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Worship (Hinduism).
Water -- Religious aspects.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual used by priests for making water libations in honor of the primordial sages (ṛṣis). Manuscript is a collection of some of the offerings mentioned in the larger work and includes the Kātīyasnānavidhi and Yajñapavītasaṃskāra. The front page contains twenty-five mantras dedicated to the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations throughout manuscript.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti maṃtreṇa yajñopavītagraṃthiṃ kuryāt / dakṣiṇahastena spṛśet / tatodaśa[kṛ]tvasāvivyāmaṃtritārāpaḥ miraṭbhiḥ saṃvet / savaṃsaṃskṛtaṃ yajñopavītaṃ ṣārapet // (f. 25r).
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 311 (UP 145).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 145

OCLC:

819406053