Details

Subjects:

New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Āpadeva (f. 29v).

Summary:

Vedic-styled ritual manual and set of rules and regulations (Hindu laws) for performance during the new and full moon days.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 29v).
Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadāpadevasūnunānaṃtadevena kṛto darśapūrṇamāsaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 29v).
Dated saṃvat 1812 (1755) (f. 29v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.

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 251 (UP 1278).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1278.

OCLC:

905606801