Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vratas.
Moon -- Mythology.
Moon.
Mythology.
Moon -- Orbit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guide outlining the rules and regulations (Hindu laws) governing rites and ceremonies associated with various kinds of observances (vrata). Daily rites and prayers related to specific lunar days (tithi) to achieve various results such as removing inauspicious aspects in one's life are mentioned.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 37v-38r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
39 leaves foliated [i], 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nirṇayāmṛtakāragrathaḥ śake 1748 āśvinavadyasaptabhobhāgīrathicaraṇasaṃnidhausamāptaṃ śrīsāṃbasadāśivā[r]paṇam astu śubhaṃ bhavatu śrIgurucaraṇārpaṇam astu (f. 37v-38r).
Dated śaka 1748 (1826) (f. 38r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 2940 (UP 273).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 273

OCLC:

826712324