Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Initiation rites -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used as a kind of manual or instructions on the performance of rites of initiation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 41r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
41 leaves foliated 1-41, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrājyābhiṣekapaddhatiḥ saṃpūrṇam mā-kṛ-11-1967 // (f. 41r).
Dated [saṃvat] 1967 (1910) (f. 41r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins.
A single wooden board supports the manuscript.

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 3407 (UP 755).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 755

OCLC:

881326032