Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of ṛc type of verses meant for recitation and use in rituals.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: laghuṛgvidhānaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 11v).
Dated saṃvat 1914 (1857) (f. 11v).
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.
Written on blue European paper, with one small, embossed seal with crest and the date 1856 (f. 4).

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 42 (UP 1330).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1330.

OCLC:

908391976