Details

Subjects:

Atonement (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation by priests or household members regarding the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) surrounding the performance of rites of atonement or expiation. An unknown commentary to the text accompanies the first part of the manuscript (f. 1r-27r)

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 84v).
Written in 5-9 lines per leaf.
85 leaves foliated 1-9, [i], 10-84, middle right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīraghūnandanabhaṭṭācāryaṃ / prāyāściṭṭatattvaṃ samāptaṃ / (f. 84v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and extensive additions in margins.
Folios are of various different sizes; more than one scribal hand.

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 3152 (UP 307).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 307

OCLC:

830665699