Details

Other Title:

Śāntidyota.

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Diseases -- Religious aspects.
Omens -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual of or treatise on proprietary sacrifices and contains the rules and regulations (Hindu laws, Dharma) governing rites to be performed by a priest or senior household member. Helps to rid the home of sickness and bad omens through the propitiation of various Hindu deities.

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 2r); alternate title Śāntidyota from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
36 leaves foliated 1-13, 15-37, upper left and lower right verso.
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 3237 (UP 262).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 262

OCLC:

827598849