Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Śrāddha (Hindu rite).
India.
Śrāddha (Hindu rite) -- 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:

Manual, including rules, laws, and dharma, related to Vedic rites of purification associated with rites honoring the dead (śrāddha).

Notes:

Title from front title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity ādyuttam eva iti nāṃdīśrāddhaṃ // (f. 8v).
Dated śaka 1705 (1783) (f. 8v).
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa (f. 8v)
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; 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 3308 (UP 1331).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1331.

Contributor:

Bhaṭṭabhāskaramiśra, scribe.

OCLC:

908168651