Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic work, thought to be derived from the Mānavagṛhyasūtra (1.4.4.8), a work on domestic rites attributed to the ancient author Manava, but presented as a upaniṣad, dealing with initiate groups (svaśākha) associated with the Ṛgveda and rites of initiation/ordination.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added with 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 802 (UP 959).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 959

Contributor:

Manava.

Related Work:

Manava. Mānavagṛhyasūtra. Selections.

OCLC:

889891074