Details

Subjects:

Baudhāyana.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Selection and synthesis of some of Baudāyana's works as compiled by Vāsudeva and is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaudhāyanakāthakacayanaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 8v).
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 red line; four vertical bars of double red lines indicate the title pages (f. 1r and f. 8v).

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 230 (UP 1290).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1290.

OCLC:

907685293