Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Worship (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be used by priests or senior family members, which outlines the rules and regulations (Hindu law) for performing rites of veneration to a specific class of deceased ancestors, typically the third generation back.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nāṃdīśrāddhasaṃkalpyaḥ // likhitam idaṃ kāśyāṃnīlakaṃṭhasūnunānārāyaṇena // śrī // śrī // karakṛtam aparādhaṃ kṣantum arhaṃti saṃtaḥ // (f. 9v).
Scribe is Nārāyaṇa son of Nīlakaṇṭha from the city of Vārāṇasī (f. 9v).
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 3274 (UP 176).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 176

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa ( son of Nīlakaṇṭha), scribe.

OCLC:

819548727