Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is part of a manual to be employed by a priest in rites and ceremonies for warding off sickness and disease. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
1 leaf foliated 2, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadagnivikṛtiśāṃtiprayogaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes 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 3242 (UP 152).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 152

OCLC:

819407530