Details

Subjects:

Agniṣṭoma (Hindu rite).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu devotional calendars.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Tables of contents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Bālakṛṣṇadīkṣita Ajigaruda (Part 2, f. 15v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study as well as a kind of guide or manual for understanding and performing seasonal rituals throughout the year. The work is divided into 14 sections including a table of contents, followed by a section for the domestic rites associate with the various lunar months of the year. Work derives from a large set of rites contained in the manual of rites associated with the Agniṣṭoma, itself part of the Jyotiṣṭoma (Part 13, f. 10r).

Notes:

Title from title page (Section 1, f. 1r).
Written in 10-15 lines per leaf.
462 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-19; (Part 2) 1-15; (Part 3) 1-11; (Part 4) 1-11; (Part 5) 1-8; (Part 6) 1-55; (Part 7) 1-108; (Part 8) 1-63, [i]; (Part 9) 1-48; (Part 10) 1-13; (Part 11) 1-5; (Part 12) 1-39; (Part 13) 1-10; (Part 14) 1-56, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrījyotiṣṭome 'gniṣṭomasaṃsthāyājigarudopābhidhabālakṛṣṇasūrisūnu śrīgoviṃdādīkṣitadaivajñaviracite kālaprabodhodaye phālgunamāsakṛtyaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śake 1801 āśvinaśuklatrayodaśyāṃ tad dine idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptiṃ // śubhaṃ bhavatu // (Part 13, f. 10r).
Dated śaka 1801 (1879) (Part 7 f. 108r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.

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 2845 (UP 766).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 766

OCLC:

880980893