Details

Other Title:

Kauṭilyāmaitrāvaruṇaprayoga.

Subjects:

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:

Manuscript is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests and their assistants.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Kauṭilyāmaitrāvaruṇaprayoga supplied by cataloger.
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kaukilyāmautrāvaruṇaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 4r).
Scribe is Raghunātha (f. 4r).
Dated śaka 1727 (1805) (f. 4r).
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.

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 256 (UP 1291).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1291.

Contributor:

Raghunātha, scribe.

OCLC:

907685058