Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Divination -- India.
Hindu astrology.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for performing Vedic rites and interpreting Vedic astrology for the purpose of divination; text is part of a secondary body of Vedic literature referred to as the Pariśiṣṭas. Contains a list of mantras dedicated to Hindu deities on the front page (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti svapnādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // śrī // śrīsaṃvat // 18 / 81 jeṣṭelikhItaṃ // śrī // (f. 6v).
Dated saṃvat 1881 (1824) (f. 6v).
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 red 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 5281 (UP 673).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 673

OCLC:

861758035