Details

Other Title:

Baudhāyanakāṭhaka agnikramapaddhati.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Possibly a section from Baudhāyana's Prayogasāra and is a collection of rules and regulations (dharma or Hindu law) containing Vedic rites for use by Hotṛ priests in Śrauta rituals, specifically rites for making votive offerings during ritual and ceremonial observances.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Baudhāyanakāṭhaka agnikramapaddhati supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
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 225 (UP 1301).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1301.

OCLC:

907932741