Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Asceticism -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual for consultation by priests, kings, or other Hindus undertaking various religious rites and observances. Text opens with reference to undertaking the religious path of renunciation (saṃnyāsa), typically the last of the four stages of life (āśramas), and contains a section on the veneration of ancestors (śraddha rites), as well as a collection of mantras for use in recitation and prayer.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 5-11 lines per leaf.
47 leaves foliated 1-47, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: viduṣām pratisaṃnyāsaṃ kartum brahmānandīyapaddhatyanusṛtyaprayogamātrā ucyate // (f. 1v).
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 3188 (UP 166).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 166

OCLC:

819531162