Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Rice -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of guide or manual to be used by a priest or householder making offerings of rice or barley as part of a Vedic fire sacrifice.

Notes:

Title from back title page (f. 12v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-11, [12], upper left and lower right verso.
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 2996 (UP 192).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 192

OCLC:

820393730