Details

Other Title:

Śrāddhakrama.

Subjects:

Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guidebook outlining rules and regulations and is meant for consultation by a priest or senior family member during the performance of funeral rites and ceremonies as well as veneration of one's ancestors. Text is dedicated to various Hindu deities, especially to Viṣṇu and the ancestors who have obtained Viṣṇu's heaven. A list of texts related to śrāddha rites and/or related pilgrimage sites (tīrthas) appears in two columns on the final folio (f. 4v) and refers to itself as Śrāddhakrama in its colophon.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Śrāddhavidhi
(Part 2:) Śrāddhakrama.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); second title from secondary colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrāddhavidhiḥ (f. 4r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 3301 (UP 183).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 183

OCLC:

820003688