Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
India.
Purity, Ritual -- 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.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual for performing rites related to the Vedic fire sacrifice, including the associated, rules, dharma, and laws, for use by a priest. Work is a prayaścita, a name also referring to the rite meant to help purify someone after making a miscalculation or other incursion.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pavitreṣṭiprayogaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 3388 (UP 1321).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1321.

OCLC:

908391973