Details

Other Title:

Agnyādhānapaddhati prayoga.
Adhānapaddhati prayoga.

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:

Manual for use by Vedic priests pertaining to the guidelines (including laws and dharma) for setting up the three sacred fires that surround the fire altar (vedi).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate titles Adhānapaddhati prayoga and Agnyādhānapaddhati prayoga supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
52 leaves foliated 1-52, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red lines.

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 269 (UP 1308).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1308.

OCLC:

908146898