Details

Other Title:

Prāyaścittagrahaṇaprakāra.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Atonement (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Atonement (Hinduism) -- Early works to 1800.
Vratas -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of guide or manual to be used by a priest for consultation during the performance of rites and rituals of atonement as well as for taking on observances (vratagrahaṇa).

Notes:

Scribe is Nārāyaṇa, son of Nīlakaṇṭha, who lived in Vārāṇasī.
Title from colophon (f. 5v); alternate title, Prāyaścittagrahaṇaprakāra, from incipit.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prāyaścittayapaddhati[r yājn̄ikavaryavādivṛṃdavaṃditapādayugalahariharasuta]dharmeśvarakṛtāsamāptimagāt // śrīrstū // kāśyāṃ nīlakaṃṭhasūnunā nārāyaṇena // lekhakapāṭhakayoḥ śivam astu // maṅgalam (f. 5v).
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 3146 (UP 190).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 190

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa (Son of Nīlakaṇṭha), scribe.

OCLC:

820003786