Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.
New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
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 related rules, laws, and dharma, for use by a Hotṛ priest performing new moon and other sacrifices, possibly from Baudhāyana. First folio is missing.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 42r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
42 leaves foliated 2-42, [43], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity āśvalāyanopayogībaudhāyanadarśapaurṇamāsaprayogaḥ // (f. 43r).
Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 43r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout manuscript; 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 3352 (UP 1316).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1316.

OCLC:

908149962