Details

Standardized Title:

Darśapūrṇamāsaprakaraṇa.

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.
New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- 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.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide, including associated rules, laws, and dharma, for a priest to perform Vedic rites of sacrifice during the period of the new moon.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 45v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
45 leaves foliated 1-45, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadāyadevasūnunānaṃtadevena kṛtodarśapūrṇamāsaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 45v).
Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (f. 45v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases written in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; title border marked with double red lines (f. 1r).

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 252 (UP 1311).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1311.

OCLC:

908148298