Details

Subjects:

Animal sacrifice.
India.
Animal sacrifice -- India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual manual, including rules, laws, and dharma, for use by priests engaged in the sacrifice of domestic animals.

Notes:

Title from note on title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3389 (UP 1318).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1318.

OCLC:

908391869