Details

Subjects:

Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Vedic literature.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection or compendium of Vedic hymns dedicate to ancestors, to be employed during Hindu funeral services. Manuscript was likely used in a funeral rite.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31r).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vedoktaṃ pitṛ sūktam // (f. 31r).
Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1728 (1806) (f. 31r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red and black; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Formerly housed with item 173 and item 174.
Bound on top horizontal.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Written for the abolution ceremony (udaka) of Candravallabha (the dedicatee), likely at his funeral (f. 31r).

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 409 (UP 175).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 175

Contributor:

Candravallabha, dedicatee.

OCLC:

819546349