Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Pregnancy -- Religious aspects.
Hindu women.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation, perhaps as a kind of handbook or manual for performing various rites and for laying out the rules and regulations associated with them. Begins with a reference to rites for inducing pregnancy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 69r).
Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
69 leaves foliated 1-69, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatpaurāṇikadharmābhaṭṭasūnaśrīmadvidvanmukuṭasāṇikya uṃmaṇabhaṭṭasūrisūnucaṃdracūḍabhaṭṭaviracitaḥ saṃskāranirṇayaḥ samāptimagamat // śrīraghunāthāya namaḥ // (f. 69r).
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 3310 (UP 267).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 267

OCLC:

826008887