Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
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, including laws, regulations, and guidelines, for various officiating priests (adhvara) performing the Vedic rites of the Agniṣṭoma sacrifice, including parts for recitation. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from note on cover page (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
17 leaves foliated 1-14, 14-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ // goviṃdaśeṣasudhiyāśeṣayajn̄e śasūnunā / (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; significant phrases or numbers highlighted in red; metrical accents to aid in recitation in red throughout most of the manuscript.

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 261 (UP 1324).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1324.

OCLC:

908167645