Details

Subjects:

Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Bhaṭarāmeśvara (f. 36v)

Summary:

Manuscript is to be used for consultation and is a kind of guide book to aid a priest in the performance of rites and regulations of Hindu law related to funerals and honoring the dead.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 36v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-35, 35-36, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭarāmeśvarasūnubhaṭṭanārāyaṇaviracitāyām aurdhvadehikapaddhatau paṃcakādimaraṇavidhānāni // (f. 36v).
Dated saṃvat 1692 (1634) (f. 36v).
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 3007 (UP 775).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 775

OCLC:

880982617