Details

Subjects:

Gods, Vedic.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Worship (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be used as a kind of guide or pocket book for use by a priest or senior householder for making daily offerings in sacrifice and worship to Vedic gods.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. [i]r).
Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated [i], 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black or red line.
First folio (f. [i]) is a newer stock of paper with red instead of black marginal lines.
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 3483 (UP 195).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 195

OCLC:

820723506