Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
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.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide for a priest to perform Vedic rites associated with purification, including related mantras for recitation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pavanapāvanaṃ samāptiṃ agamat // (f. 4r).
Dated śaka 1709 (1786) (f. 4r); paper and style appear to be late-19th century, despite the date.
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; red accents for aid in recitation.
Partial watermarks possibly from a large crest.
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 4r)

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 3387 (UP 1312).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1312.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

908148987