Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a short manual for use by priests or senior householders and outlines some of the rules, regulations, and procedures (Hindu law, Dharma) governing the observance and performance of funeral rites.

Notes:

Title from margin (f. 1v).
Written in 20 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins. Manuscript treated with yellow turmeric powder.

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 3306 (UP 295).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 295

OCLC:

830001343