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Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Shudras.
Caste -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook about the rules that regulate the dharma of and daily rites and ceremonies to be performed by low-caste workers (śūdras).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śudradharmatatve śūdrāhnikaṃ (f. 8r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and colophon in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 3067 (UP 269).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 269

OCLC:

826008790