Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Sūrya (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual of rites, including rules, dharma, and laws, for use by a priest performing praises and oblations to the sun (the Hindu deity Sūrya); performed in the tṛca meter (triplets) typically used in stotra (praise) literature.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tṛcapaddhatiḥ / (f. 16r).
Date based on watermark; typically manuscripts are written within a few years of the paper's production.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Watermarks of a seal, partial name of a paper company, and the date 1831.

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 3376 (UP 1332).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1332.

OCLC:

908392056