Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Hindu astronomy.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of handbook or manual to be used by a priest or family member; it prescribes and outlines rules (religious laws) for performing protective rites to avoid death if a birth occurs when the moon enters a lunar station comprising only one star. This is considered inauspicious and needs to be corrected through the prescribed rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right recto and verso.
Colophon: ity ekanakṣatraśāntiprayogaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out.
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 3250 (UP 186).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 186

OCLC:

820002364