Details

Subjects:

Rice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Atonement (Hinduism).
India.
Atonement (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.
Rice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a guide or manual to be used by a priest or householder making offerings of rice or barley as part of a Vedic fire sacrifice along with atonement for ritual transgressions.

Notes:

Title from final title page (f. 18v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 18r).
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti iṣṭiprāyaścittāni śrIkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 18r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red lines.
Watermarks of a partial crest through part of 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 3164 (UP 1328).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1328.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

908168473