Details

Other Title:

Dvitīyapūrṇāhutiprakāra.

Subjects:

Rice.
Votive offerings.
India.
Votive offerings -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Rice -- India -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First part of manuscript is a manual outlining the rules and instructions for a sacrificial patron (yajnamāna) on how to make an oblation of boiled rice during a fire sacrifice. The second part is a short text at the end (Dvitīyapūrṇāhutiprakāra) employed to complete the offering.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Sthālīpākaprayoga
(Part 2:) Dvitīyapūrṇāhutiprakāra.

Notes:

Title from title incipit (f. 1v); alternate title, Dvitīyapūrṇāhutiprakāra from colophon (10r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dvitīyapūrṇāhatiprakāraḥ // saṃvat 1820 śrāvaṇe māse kṛṣṇapakṣe amāvāsyāyāṃ tithau bhaumavāsare tad dine kāśyāṃ likhitaṃ paṭavarddyanopanāmaka ātmārāmbhaṭṭātmajagoviṃdarāmeṇa svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // śrīśubham astu // śrīrāma // śrīkṛṣṇaśrī // (f. 10r).
Scribe is Govindarāma son of Ātmarāma Bhaṭṭa (10r) who lived in the city of Varāṇasī.
Dated saṃvat 1820 (1763) (f. 10r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; accents in red through first part of manuscript (f. 1-2).
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 2997 (UP 151).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 151

Contributor:

Govindarāma, son of Ātmarāma Bhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

819407514