Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Puja (Hinduism).
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Biography/History:

Son of Harihara Bhaṭṭācārya (f. 34v).

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise used for consultation by priests discussing the true nature of duty (Hindu law, Dharma) and contains different examples of daily rites to be performed by Hindus, including an emphasis on śrāddha rites (funeral rites). Manuscript includes some Vedic and non-Vedic rites as well as some devotional material (pūja).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 34v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 6-34, middle right verso.
Colophon: iti vandya [???] śrīhariharabhaṭṭācāryātmaja śrīraghūnandanabhaṭṭācāryaviracitaṃ kṛtyatattvaṃ samāptaṃ (f. 34).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 2933 (UP 309).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 309

OCLC:

830665730