Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Hindu astronomy.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be employed by a priest or householder for determining the proper times during the year to perform rituals. Determining the proper time to perform annual rites and ceremonies will ensure that they have the desired efficacy and potency. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 80v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
93 leaves foliated 3-40, 53-84, 87-110, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrītatsad upanāmakabhaṭṭabālakṛṣṇāṃgajabhaṭṭaviṭhṭhalasūrisūnubhaṭṭarāmacraṃdrakṛte [kālanirṇayaprakāśe 5] navarātranirṇayaḥ // (f. 80v).
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.

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 2942 (UP 300).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 300

OCLC:

830005857