Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Soma.
India.
Soma -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual for a Vedic priest making a soma offering in the context of a broader śrauta sacrifice. Small diagrams or sketches with text on the final leaf of the manuscript.

Notes:

Title from explicit (f. 10v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated [i], 1-10, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1811 (1734) (f. 10v).
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.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned and commissioned by Sakhārāmabhāṭṭa (f. 10v).

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 284 (UP 1302).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1302.

Contributor:

Sakhārāmabhāṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

907932878