Details

Subjects:

New moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

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 sacrifices.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 2v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black lines. Front title page mistakenly written at the end of the manuscript (f. 2v).

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 289 (UP 1315).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1315.

OCLC:

908391661