Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is to be used by a priest or family member performing funeral rites, outlining the correct procedures and religious laws governing offerings to various ancestors (who should be named) to help the deceased on their passage to the afterworld.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 7v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1922 (1865) (f. 7v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
European paper with watermarks.
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 3266 (UP 155).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 155

OCLC:

819407706